 | 1844 - 648 pages
...isles Which stoop their summer beauty to the lips Of the bright waters. We had checked our steeds, Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...water-falls, We had looked upward where the summer sky, Resting its bases on the abutting crags, Sprung its light arch, sun-gilded and serene, Across the deep... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...isles Which stoop their summer beauty to the lips Of the bright waters. We had checked our steeds, Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...the mad torrent with perpetual roar, Where noonday ia as twilight, and the wind Comes burdened with the everlasting moan Of forests and of far-off water-falls,... | |
 | 1845 - 648 pages
...vast rocks, against whose rugged feet Beats the mad torrent with perpetual roar, Where noonday isas twilight, and the wind Comes burdened with the everlasting...water-falls, We had looked upward where the summer sky, Resting its bases on the abutting crags, Sprung its light arch, sun-gilded and serene, Across the deep... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pages
...isles Which stoop their summer beauty to the lips Of the bright waters. We had checked our steeds, Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...water-falls, We had looked upward where the summer sky, Tasseled with clouds light-woven by the sun, * Winnepurkit, otherwise called George, Sachem of Saugus,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 436 pages
...isles Which stoop their summer beauty to the lips Of the bright waters. We had checked our steeds, Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...water-falls, We had looked upward where the summer sky, Tasseled with clouds light-woven by the sun, * Winnepnrkit, otherwise called George, Sachem of Saugus,... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...Notch," and the subsequent experience, in the language of Whittier : — We had checked our steeds Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...waterfalls, We had looked upward where the summer shy Tasselled with clouds, light-woven by the sun. Sprung its blue arch above the abutting ciagi, O'er-roofing... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...the vast rocks, against whose rugged feet Where noonday is as twilight, and the wind Comes burden'd with the everlasting moan Of forests and of far-off waterfalls, We had look'd upward where the summer sky, TasselPd with clouds light-woven by the sun, Sprung its blue arch... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...Notch," and the subsequent experience, in the language of Whittier : — We had checked our steeds Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...rift Of the vast rocks, against whose rugged feet Bents the mad torrent with perpetual roar, Where noonday is as twilight, and the wind Comes burdened... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 422 pages
...The Notch," and the subsequent experience, in the language of Whittier :— We had checked our steeds Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled...sky Tasselled with clouds, light-woven by the sun, Sprang its blue arch above the abutting crags, O'er-roofing the vast portal of the land Beyond the... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pages
...Whittier, the Quaker poet must have had such scenery in view when he wrote : '•We had checked our steeds, Silent with wonder : where the mountain wall Is piled...vast rocks, against whose rugged feet Beats the mad turmoil with perpetual roar, Where noonday is as twilight, and the wind Comes burdened with the everlasting... | |
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Silent with wonder, where the mountain wall Is piled to heaven ; and, through the narrow rift Of the vast rocks, against whose rugged feet Beats the mad torrent with perpetual roar, Where noonday is as twilight, and the wind Comes burdened with the everlasting... 
