 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, For, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue" Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies dowu to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last steps of dny. Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pomie Thy solitary way 1 Vainly the fowler's eye Might... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...must adduce it here, as a specimen of the elevated and polished style of Bryant's compositions:— Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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 sky,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1857 - 500 pages
...prepared himself for his hammock by kneeling and repeating the prayers of the hour. CHAPTER XVII. " Whither^ 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thoo pursue Thy solitary way 7" BRYANT. THE slumbers of Columbus were of short duration. While his... | |
 | American essays - 1918 - 1012 pages
...northward with their masterly flight, there was no suggestion of the barnyard or farm pond up there. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through the rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Bryant, by the way, handled natural subjects in... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow.../ Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, / Thy figure floats along. / Thou'rt... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - Poetry - 1978 - 398 pages
...that loves thee nor will let thee pass Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. (1815; 1817) TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow...thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye s Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky,1 Thy figure... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
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Waterfowl 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? 
