 God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth ! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 481837Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast; Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And 'twixt the o'ershadowing branches and the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning, from the innumerable boughs, The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast; Pleasant shall be thy way, where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast ; Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, j • And 'tvuii the o'ershadowing branches and the grass " ; (• The faint old man shall lean... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1852 - 384 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning, from the innumerable boughs, The strange deep harmonies that haunt his breast : Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning, from the innumerable boughs, The strange deep harmonies that haunt his breast : Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning I'rom the innumerable houghs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And 'twixt theo'ershadowing branches and the grass The faint old man shall lean his silver head... | |
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