| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found ! J. MONTGOMERY. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. Gray. TO A WATER-FOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew,6 While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, 1 Fair science, S;c.... | |
| 1845 - 648 pages
...lonely flight of the Water-fowl. Veneration prompted the inquiry, "Whither 'midst falling dew, When glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ?" Sometimes, in musing upon genius in its simpler manifestations, it seems as if the great art... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...it is his word, And aye will welcome back again its little travelling bird. T. AIRD. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way * Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly pointed on... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...and high ancestral hall, Of the times that were, of old. TO A WATERFOWL. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYAST. Whither, 'midst falling dew. While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do tbee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
| James Martineau - 1846 - 538 pages
...skies for ever bright. 649. BRYANT. The water-fowl. ' ' There is a path which no fowl knowsth. " 1 WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? 2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted... | |
| 1846 - 308 pages
...hall, Of the times that were, of old. TO A WATERFOWL. BT WILLIAM CCLLEN BRYAST. Whither, 'midst /ailing dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 pages
...brightening glory of its flight, Till the receding rays are lost to human sight. To a Waterfowl. — BRYANT. WHITHER, "midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way .; Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...welcome bough t I hail thee, Mercy's herald then, Her sacred symbol now. . F. SMITH. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...of his Genevieve. And oft he turns his truant eye, And pauses oft, and lingers near; TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
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