 | Martín García Mérou - 1894 - 236 pages
...inglés para tener una idea de la melancólica inspiración que se desprende de esta solemne elegía: These are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...which the speech of England has no name The Prairies. Í behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling... | |
 | Eureka College. Alumni association - 1894 - 428 pages
...northward were across the prairies to the dear school-home in the grove. "These are the Hardens of (ho desert — these The unshorn fields, boundless and...which the speech of England has no name, The prairies. . . . Lo! they stretch In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean in his gentlest swell Stood still,... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - 1895 - 210 pages
...following lines of Bryant's well describe some of the associations of a first view of the prairies :— " These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. 1 behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness.... | |
 | Thomas Middleton, William Rowley - 1966 - 312 pages
...around the horn. Traditional Ortgon Trail song I have been a stranger in a strange land. Exodus 2:22 These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...beautiful. For which the speech of England has no name — William Cullen Bryant It is hard to guess what the followers of the Oregon Trail expected as they... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss - 1975 - 534 pages
...second line of the Prairies strike me as feeble. I wish the commencement of that poem to stand thus. These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth ere man had sinned — The prairies, &c. &c.7 "To sup upon the dead,"... | |
 | 1852 - 44 pages
...rivers that move j* In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green." * * * # " These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn...boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England hath no name— The Prairies." Bryant. WILLIS, in speakjng of one of the annual gatherings of young... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. M (1830; 1830) THE PRAIRIES These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight 8 Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the Ocean,... | |
 | John Mack Faragher - 1986 - 306 pages
...found them stunningly beautiful. William Cullen Bryant, who toured in the 1830s, was moved to verse: These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn...the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Emigrants, too, could appreciate their beauty. Riding north across the prairies with a party of emigrants... | |
 | Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 pages
...expand into the surrounding space. William Cullen Bryant writes of 'The Prairies': 'I behold them from the first, / And my heart swells, while the dilated sight / Takes in the encircling vastness'; Whitman claims 'I chant the chant of dilation'; Emerson records how 'the heart refuses to be imprisoned;... | |
 | Paul Theroux - 1979 - 438 pages
...grasslands, every lick of weed combed flat by the wind, and no mooching cow anywhere to give it size. These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. We came to Perry. Perry's bungalow styles were from Massachusetts and Ohio, and some with tarpaper... | |
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These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful. For which the speech of England has no name— The Prairies. 
