 midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far 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  Popular poems, selected by E. Parker - Seite 227von Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found ! J. MONTGOMERY. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. TO A WATER-FOWL. Gray. WHITHER, midst falling dew, 6 While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,...eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, 1 fair science, fyc.—ie though he loved science, yet he was melancholy: an affirmation which has... | |
 | 1832 - 406 Seiten
...intelligible enough for the commonest TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHÎR, midst falling dew, While glow llie heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their...thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye ilight mark thy distant flignt to do Üiee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure... | |
 | James Martineau - 1846 - 538 Seiten
...the skies for ever bright. 649. BRYANT. The water-fowl. " There is a path which no fowl knoweth," 1 WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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 on the... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 Seiten
...welcome back again its little travelling bird. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, T. AIRD. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly pointed on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou thy plashy brink Of weedy lake, or... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 Seiten
...dwelling 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...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 Seiten
...Waterfowl, finely allude to this instinct of migration, and to the feelings it ever ought to inspire. " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 Seiten
...now. -JP SMITH. The olive's welcome bough: I hail thee, Mercy's herald then, TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHEE, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong 1 , As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Vainly... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...flight of the water-fowl. Veneration. pvoia^VeiJi \tae, \wajx\rj,— " Whither 'midst falling dew When glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy steps dost thou pursue Thy solitary way 1" Sometimes, in musing upon genius in its simpler manifestations,... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 Seiten
...proud king's boasted name, Unmentioned in holy songs—unheralded by fame. To A WATERFOWL. WB Flower. WHITHER midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...distant flight to do thee wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake or margin of... | |
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