 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
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1851 - 600 Seiten
...; It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHEB, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seck'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...what adjectives or verbs are the fallowing abstract nouns connected. Depth. Flight. Height. WHITHEB ' 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way, 8 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 542 Seiten
...reached by man; and they are marked by the swiftness of their flight, and the height to which they soar: "Vainly the fowler's eye, Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong; As darkly painted on the crimson sky. Thy figure floats along. "Seck'st thou the plashy brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 Seiten
...speed put on your woodland dress, And bring no book ; for this one day We '11 give to idleness. 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 Seiten
...but flows natu out of the preceding verses :— TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew, AVhile glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through...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... | |
 | 1865 - 318 Seiten
...divided into components by means of brackets and curves. The principal clauses are inclosed in brackets. [Whither (midst falling dew,) While (glow the heavens)...?] [Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant form to do thee wrong, As,] (darkly limned (upon the crimson sky,) Thy figure float« along,) ******... | |
 | James Martineau - 1852 - 544 Seiten
...skies for ever bright. 649. BRYANT. The water-fowl. •' There is a path which no fowl knowstk." 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1853 - 376 Seiten
...oft, and lingers near ; But when he marks the reddening sky, He bounds away to hunt the deer. 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... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 Seiten
...flourishes his hands." The " Waterfowl" is one of the most beautiful and perfect poems in the language. " 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. " Seekest thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of... | |
 | 1854 - 128 Seiten
...fluttering, bleeding fall, And tinge the troubled bosom of the lake. THE WILD DUCK. BRYANT. HITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...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... | |
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