 The hills Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and...  The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Page 20by William Cullen Bryant - 1903 - 418 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland, James Smillie - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - 1847 - 184 pages
...between ; — The venerable woods" — " and pourM round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste— Are but the solemn decorations all, Of the great tomb of man." BRYANT. IT is fifteen years since Mount Auburn, near Boston, was set apart as a place of sepulture.... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...brooks, That make the meadow green; and, poured round all Old ocean's gray arid melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb...the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb...the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.—Take the wings Of morning—and the Barcan... | |
 | Bible stories, English - 1848 - 272 pages
...green; and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn declarations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun, The...the still lapse of ages — all that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom — take the wings Of morning, and the Barean... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...That make the meadows green, — and, poured round oil, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." Grandeur. Vastness. 75. "Roll on, thon deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 472 pages
...That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are bnt the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man....the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. — Take the wings Of morning — and the... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.' " HI. — Tranquillity. ("Subdued" force, — gentle and level utterance.) I. — [CONSTANTINOPLE,... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.' " III.— Tranquillity. ("Subdued" force, — gentle and level utterance.) 1. — [CONSTANTINOPLE,... | |
 | American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,- — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb...the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. — Take the wings Of morning — and the... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - English language - 1850 - 228 pages
...splendid light, wot to render the preponderating deep green more solemn." — Dwight. " The golden snn, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death." RULE 4. — When a sentence or clause is used as the nominative to a preceding or following verb, it... | |
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