 E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath and look so like...  Poems - Page 29by William Cullen Bryant - 1887 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and good. CHAPTER ON FLOWERS. THAT delicate field flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile,...upholding love, That are the soul of this wide Universe. SMALL BINDWEED. THE Bind-weed, pare and pale, That sues to all for aid, And when rude storms assail... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...such as hlooms not in the glare Of the hroad sun. That delicate forest Sower, With scented hreath, und look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the...shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visihle token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe. My heart rs awed within... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the...upholding Love That are the soul of this wide universe.' — pp. 29, 30. It is impossible not to recognize in these lines a certain degree of poetic power,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1833 - 594 pages
...Vegetable nature — ' This mighty Oak, By whose immoveable stem I stand — ------ Nestled at his root Is BEAUTY: such as blooms not in the glare Of the...it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of th' indwelling life ; A visible token of th' upholding love, Which are the soul of this wide universe.'... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby, William Jardine - Botany - 1837 - 664 pages
...trunks that high in heaven mingle their mossy boughs," the peculiarity of the carpet underneath, " Beauty such as blooms not in the glare of the broad sun," would form pictures strong in contrast with the rich and broad foliage of the tropics, their profuse... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pages
...boughs,' give to them both perpetual benedictions. They alike feel that even ' The delicate forest-flower Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life ; ' while the trees in their presence ' stand like Druids of eld, their beards resting upon their bosoms,'... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...as he Wears the green coronal of leaves, with which Thy hand has graced him. 6. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the...like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mold, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With delicate breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...to our fellow men, calling forth all our kindliest feelings, and prompting us to acts of love, — " That delicate forest flower, With scented breath,...Love, That are the soul of this wide universe."— BEY ANT. Yes ! beautiful and radiant creatures 1 as ye are the "visible tokens of the upholding Love!"... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad...upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe. BRYANT. 229 CONNEXIONAL DEPARTMENT. EDITORIAL REMARKS. It will delight our friends through the Connexion... | |
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