 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seekst thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge...pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 548 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where tiie rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphtrt ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. 3 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the Chafed ocean-side 1 4 There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge...where the rocking billows rise and sink, On the chafed ocean's side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 556 pages
...problem is solved ! This is doubtless an island, but a continent is near. Laud be to God !" CHAPTER VI. "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost" BRYANT. THE two or three hours that succeeded, were hours of an extraordinary and intense interest.... | |
 | Christianity - 1840 - 516 pages
...(directed by unerring Wisdom, when the proper time comes round,) and revisit their retreats ; their - plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf 'd ocean aide." But how do the tenants of the sea, the ocean-born animals, the whales, the porpoises,... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge...pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Scek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river...Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the weleome land, Though... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Language and languages - 1842 - 216 pages
...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seck'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river...the rocking billows rise and sink . > On the chafed ocean-side ? 'the bere is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Language and languages - 1842 - 214 pages
...flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Soek'st Ihou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and... | |
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WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson... 
