 Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground,...  The Athenaeum - Page 1551832Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 318 pages
...withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth,...bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends—the good—the kind, Yielded to thee with tears— The venerable form—the exalted mind.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...Asr.iin, in To the Past, written in 1827, from which we quote : Thou hast my better years, Thou host my earlier friends — the good — the kind, Yielded...intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, aud pluck thy captives thence. ***** And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...singing the "Unrelenting Past," says, — " Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, manhood, age that draws us to the ground, And last man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound." In thy abysses, he continues, are hidden beauty and excellence unknown — forgotten arts and wisdom... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, manhood, age, that draws us to the ground, And last, man's Efe on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my early friends — the good — the kind, Yielded to thee with tears — • The venerable form —... | |
 | Walter Colton - Mediterranean Sea - 1860 - 342 pages
...gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, manhood, age, that draws us to the ground, And last, man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. BRYANT. SMYRNA ITS SEAMEN MOTLEY POPULATION THE TARTAR-JANIZARY MODERN WARFARE ENCOUNTERS IN THREADING... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - 272 pages
...in sullenness and gloom, Childhood, with all its mirth, ' Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. ground, Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends—the good—the kind, Yielded to thee... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1862 - 276 pages
...withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, Childhood, with all its mirth. Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth,...bound Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends—the good—the kind, Yielded to thee with tears— The venerable form—the exalted mind.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...gone Lic deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And, last, Man's Life on earth,...are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlicr fricnds — the good — the kind, Yiclded to thee with tears, — The venerable form — the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1862 - 312 pages
...withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom. Childhood, with all its mirth, youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth,...Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast iny better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good — the kind, Yielded to thee with tears... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth,...tears — The venerable form — the exalted mind. To the Past. 261 My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles... | |
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