 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 492 pages
...the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark? There are snares enough on the tented fitld, 'Mid the blossomed sweets that the valleys yield;...man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 416 pages
...wrecking reef for the gallant bark? There are snares enough on the tented fitld, 'Mid the blossomed sweet; that the valleys yield; There are serpents to coil...man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...rolled ; O'er the whirlpool ripens the rind of gold ; The sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And the mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1839 - 452 pages
...blossomed sweets that the valleys yield; There are serpents to coil ere the flowers are up, There 'sa poison-drop in man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers (Elementary) - 1841 - 286 pages
...isle is the home of men,^ And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'ncath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American poetry - 1857 - 348 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath tho billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark 3 There are snares enough on the tented field, "Mid...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant hark? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...day. t Nebuchadnezzar. The turf looks green where the breakers rolled ; O'er the whirlpool ripens tb.e rind of gold ; The sea-snatched isle is the home of...man's purest cup, , There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...rolled ; O'er the whirlpool ripens the rind of gold ; The sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And the mountains exult where the wave hath been. " But why...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye... | |
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neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant bark? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossomed sweets that the valleys yield; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There's a... 
