 THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse. The reeds bent down the stream : the willow leaves, With a soft cheek upon...  Sacred Poems - Seite 71von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1859 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1827 - 112 Seiten
...wept. ABSALOM. THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still Unbroken...gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way And leaned in graceful attitudes to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...Absalom.—WILLIS. * THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken...gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, Ajid leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...— WILLIS. THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken...gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 432 Seiten
...for those THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung-low Qn Jordan a bosom, and the eddies curl'd Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still Unbroken beating of the. sleeper's pulse. The reeds bent|down the stream. The willow leaves, With;a soft cheek upon the lulling tide, Forgot the lifting... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken'beating of the sleeper's pulse. The reeds bent down the stream:...gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...ABSALOM.— Willis. The waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse. . * 232 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER. King David's limbs were weary. He had fled From far Jerusalem; and... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...victory !" THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curl'd Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still Unbroken...lifting winds, and the long stems, Whose flowers the waters like a gentle nurse Bear on its bosom, quietly gave way And lean'd in graceful attitudes to... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...rhyme; as, The waters slept: night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse. POETICAL FEET consist in a particular arrangement and connexion of a number of accented and unaccented... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 274 Seiten
...! ABSALOM. THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken...gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned, in graceful attitudes, to rest. How strikingly the course of nature tells, By its light heed... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1837 - 266 Seiten
...! ABSALOM. THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it, like the still, Unbroken...lulling tide, Forgot the lifting winds ; and the long steins, Whose flowers the water, like a gentle nurse, Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way, And leaned,... | |
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