 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
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms, and + hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. 5. 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... | |
 | 1853 - 478 pages
...American scenery which the perplexed Othello could hardly have enjoyed : — "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... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...the 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 ; Who peopled all the city's street A hundred years ago ? Who filled the church with faces meek, A... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...earth — the wise, the good, M 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 4° In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietude between — The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks... | |
 | David Staines - 1986 - 180 pages
...the 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...in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 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...pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 pages
...were God's ways." But the noblest expression of this anthropomorphism is Bryant's "Thanatopsis": ... 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... | |
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