 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
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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 - 1855 - 310 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt hit breast : Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershudowing branches sweep the grass. Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 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... | |
 | 1858 - 460 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 The faint old man shall lean his silver head To... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 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, The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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... | |
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