 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 pages
...The year 5. Solemnity and Sublimity. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between, — The venerable...and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green,—and, poured 'round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That...meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | 1850 - 264 pages
...past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable...meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,- — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move 4° In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the...meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured all round, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Of the great tomb of man. Here is no arena of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...pleasant dreams. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietude fest the day Shall fold their gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Oh, Fairest... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - 1984 - 456 pages
...cosmic size both to create sublime effect and to insure an anthropocentric universe. 64 Nature's forms "are but the solemn decorations all / Of the great tomb of man," while sun and stars shine down as mourners upon the "one mighty sepulchre" that is earth. Enveloping... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 pages
...anthropomorphism is Bryant's "Thanatopsis": ... The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old oceans gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Since... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
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The hills 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... 
