 | David Thomas - 1852 - 236 pages
...lie down With patriarchs of the ancient world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise and good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All...the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair...the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; Who peopled all the city's street A hundred years ago ? Who filled the church with faces meek, A... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows... | |
 | Fort Hill Cemetery Association - 1853 - 146 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth— the wise, the good, Fair...the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty,...melancholy waste, Are but the solemn + decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - 1854 - 320 pages
...Couch' more magnificent. Thou' shalt lie down' With pa'triarchs of the in'fant world, — with kings', The pow'erful of the earth, — the wise', the good,...vales', Stretching' in pensive qui'etness between ; The ven'erable woods; — ri'vers that move In ma'jesty, and' the complaining brooks' That make'... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1854 - 262 pages
...The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching-in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty,...melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." But of what is it the tomb ? Does the spirit die 1 Do the blessed affections... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 pages
...hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between, — The venerable woods, — rivers that move In majesty,...melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." Grandeur. Fastness. 75. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll !... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 318 pages
...The hills Kock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty,...melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven. Are shining... | |
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The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy... 
