With all the forms, and hues, and airs, That haunt her sweetest spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How willingly we turn us then Away from... The Wept of Wish-ton-wish: A Tale - Page 71by James Fenimore Cooper - 1836Full view - About this book
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm, pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...into thy azure breast For seats of innocence and rest ! -BRYANT. HYMN OF THE CITY. NOT in the solitude Alone may man commune with Heaven, or see Only in... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm, pure sphere, And read of heaven's eternal year. Oh ! when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest ! From " The Minstrel Girl."— JAMES G. WHITTISH. HER lover died. Away from her, The ocean-girls his... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...into thy azure breast For seats of innocence and rest ! BRYANT. WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life in ev'ry... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest! "I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION." I CANNOT forget with what fervid devotion I worshipped... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...into thy azure breast For seats of innocence and rest ! WE ARE SEVEN. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life in ev'ry breath... | |
| Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...circle all. and great. — Pupe. O! when, amid the throng of men, My mother ! when I learned that thou The; heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How willingly...thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest ! Bryant. Beware of too sublime a sense Of your own worth and consequence ; The man who dreams himself... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...from this cold earth, And look into thy azure breast, 4 For seats of innocence and rest! "I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION." I CANNOT forget with... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 500 pages
...their return, and Martha glided away so silently as to leave him for a moment ignorant of her absence. CHAPTER V. " Oh ! when amid the throngs of men The...breast, For seats of innocence and rest '"' BRYANT'S Skin, THE day was the Sabbath. This religious festival, which is even now observed in most of the States... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...spot. We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere, And read of Heaven's eternal year. Oh, when, amid the throng of men, The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How...thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest! "I CANNOT FORGET WITH WHAT FERVID DEVOTION." I CANNOT forget with what fervid devotion I worshipped... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - New York (State) - 1853 - 620 pages
...Martha glided awr>.> so silently, as to leave him for a moment ignorant of ht absence. CHAPTER XXII. " Oh — when amid the throngs of men The heart grows...willingly we turn us, then, Away from this cold earth i And look into thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest." i Bryant's " Skies." IHE day was... | |
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