 Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy...  The Homoeopathic Times - Page 1451880Full view - About this book
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; 40 The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...promising us immortality the poet asks us to take comfort from the beauty of our common sepulcher: The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...— the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...He is plowing the field with Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.' The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 356 pages
...life. This tendency is illustrated well by the American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): ... The Hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun. - the...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured... | |
 | George Rapanos - 2006 - 295 pages
...earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and poured... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - 2006 - 308 pages
...earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 pages
...by the appearance of a short original poem in the "North American Review" for September, 1817: — "...The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun;...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; the floods that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That wind among the meads and make them... | |
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