 Heliconian waters Are sparkling in their native fount no more, And after years of wandering, the nine daughters Of poetry have found upon our shore A happier home, and on their sacred shrines Glow in immortal ink, the polished lines LX.  Fanny - Page 25by Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1821 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 538 pages
...immortal ink, the polish'd lines Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses ScottNames hallow'd by their readers' sweetest smile; And who that reads at all, has read...ever Have written, think ye, the Backwoodsman? never. Alas! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powera, Seen in their native... | |
 | 1813 - 592 pages
...immortal ink, the polished lines Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses ScottNames hallow'd by their readers' sweetest smile; And who that reads at all, has read them not. " That blind old man of Scions rocky isle," Homer, was well enough; but would he ever Have written, think ye, the Backwoodsman?... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - American poetry - 1839 - 158 pages
...upon our shore A happier home, and on their sacred shrines Glow in immortal ink, the polish'd lines LX. Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses Scott — Names...think ye, the Backwoodsman? never. LXI. Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their native element,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1847 - 308 pages
...in immortal ink, the polished lines LX. Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses Scott — Names hallowed by their reader's sweetest smile ; And who that reads...think ye, the Backwoodsman ? never. LXI. Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their native element,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1848 - 320 pages
...the polished lines LX. Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses Scott — Names hallowed by their readers sweetest smile ; And who that reads at all has read...think ye, the Backwoodsman ? never. LXI. Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their native element,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1851 - 252 pages
...in immortal ink, the polished lines LX. Of Woodworth, Doctor Farmer, Moses Scott — Names hallowed by their reader's sweetest smile ; And who that reads at all has read them not 1 "That blind old man of Scio's rocky isle," Homer, was well enough ; but would he ever Have written,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Bookbinding - 1858 - 322 pages
...the polished lines LX. Of Woodworth. Doctor Farmer, Moses Scott — Names hallowed by their readers sweetest smile ; And who that reads at all has read...ever Have written, think ye, the Backwoodsman? never. t LXI. Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their... | |
 | 1867 - 416 pages
...subsequently returned to the charge in the better-known lines in his poem of " Fanny", published in 1821. " Homer was well enough ; but would he ever Have written,...think ye, the Backwoodsman ? never. LXI. " Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a. stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their native element,... | |
 | 1867 - 410 pages
...subsequently returned to the charge in the better-known lines in his poem of " Fanny", published in 1821. " Homer was well enough; but would he ever Have written,...think ye, the Backwoodsman ? never. LXI. " Alas! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their native element,... | |
 | 1867 - 410 pages
...subsequently returned to the charge in the better-known lines in his poem of " Fanny", published in 1821. " Homer was well enough ; but would he ever Have written, think ye, the Backwoodsman ? never. IXI. " Alas ! for Paulding — I regret to see In such a stanza one whose giant powers, Seen in their... | |
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