 That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of...  Evening hours, ed. by E.H. Bickersteth - Page 555edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Consolation - 1837 - 264 pages
...sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable Voods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." But of... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and...sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decoratinns all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...; and ihe complaining brooks, Thai make the meadows green : and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations...sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...complaining brooks, That make the meadow green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and merancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the...sun. The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...; and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, 1 The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the...meadows green : and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move Tn majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
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