 | United States. 68th Cong., 2d sess., 1924-1925. House - 1925 - 104 pages
...pleasing hope, this fond desire, • This longing after immortality? Bryant says of the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. [23] He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...merit. We fully recognize the poet in Thou'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form. , moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved...cannot be completed at one sitting. We may contin The Forest Hymn consists of about a hundred and twenty blank Pentameters, of whose great rhythmical... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way! (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 — (1. 13-14) 27 He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink 10 Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — 15 The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned,... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - American literature - 1996 - 376 pages
...Wherever it may be, "Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong" because "There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through... | |
 | Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III - Religion - 2010 - 1086 pages
...the sea"(Ps 139:9). In response to the wonder of migration, William Cullen Bryant penned the words "There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast" ("To a Waterfowl"). The Lord asks Job, "Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom?" (Job 39:26). For Jeremiah... | |
 | Linda Wagner-Martin - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 256 pages
...natural theology. Oak Park High School required Hemingway to memorize both Bryant's "Ode to a Waterfowl" ("There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" [26]) and "Thanatopsis" ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 pages
...against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and... | |
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There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,... 
