... gaze, And steers, undoubting, to the friendly coast ; And they who stray in perilous wastes, by night, Are glad when thou dost shine to guide their footsteps right. And, therefore, bards of old, Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams... The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ... - Page 88by Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...aright.' Then, as his manner is, he speaks of the Star as ' A beauteous type of that unchanging Good, That bright, eternal Beacon, by Whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.' Bryant has been designated a ' poet of American nature.' One of the most striking and salient features in... | |
| American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. SONG OF TEIE STARS. When the radiant morn of creation broke, And the world in the smile of God awoke,... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. SONG Of THE STARS. WHEN the radiant morn of creation broke, And the world in the smile of God awoke,... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...solemn wood Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, 122 FORMS AND DIVISIONS OF TIME. That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The...rate does the change take place ? 5. Describe tne »itualion of the polar star. LESSON 56. Forms and Divisions of Time. As the form of the year is various... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. AUTUMN WOODS. ERE, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of autumn,... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Civilization - 1833 - 370 pages
...hermits of the solemn wood Did in thy beams behold *• A beauteous type of that unchanging good, 11 That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager...the polar star. LESSON 56. Forms and Divisions of Fime, As the form of the year is various among different nations, so is its beginning. 'The Jews, like... | |
| 1833 - 444 pages
...footsteps right. Fixes his steady gaze, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. A nd, therefore, bards of old, Sagea, and hermits of the solemn wood, WHERE ARE THE FRIENDS OF MY YOUTH... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy bearns behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright, eternal beacon, by whose' ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. PROPENSITY OF THE ENGLISH TO SWEARING. The English were remarkable so early as tlie fifteenth century,... | |
| 1832 - 858 pages
...Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape hie heedful way. WHERE ARE THE FRIENDS OF MY YOUTH f Long years had elapsed, since I gazed on the scene... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way. THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER. WILD was the day ; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New-England's strand,... | |
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