 That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and 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 on the sad abodes of...  Evening hours, ed. by E.H. Bickersteth - Page 555edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...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 waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. 6. The... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 pages
...sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between j 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 waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. 6. The golden... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, pour'd round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste ; Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Remark 1. — Whatever inflection may have been given a word or passage, when first expressed, it has... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green ; and. pour'd round all Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste, —...golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heav'n, Are shining as the sad abodes of death, Thro' the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 pages
...make the meadow green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but Ihe solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The...sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The giohe are... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...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 waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...— 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 waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.' " m.—... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green ; and poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. 32 5. 'The golden sun. The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland, James Smillie - 1847 - 184 pages
...in pensive quietness between ; — The venerable woods" — " and pourM round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste— Are but the solemn decorations all, Of the great tomb of man." BRYANT. IT is fifteen years since Mount Auburn, near Boston, was set apart as a place of sepulture.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 pages
...and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green; and, poured round all Old ocean's gray arid melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations...sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are... | |
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