| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...run Thro' woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave SMCceedmgwave, She hears the near advance of death ; She doubles to misl endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's ve-ture wrought, To instruct our wand'ring thought. Thus she dresses... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift and sometimes slow. Wave succeedmg wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep! Thus is nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wand'ring thought; Thus she dresses... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wandering thought; Thus she dresses... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...they run Thro' woods and meads, in shade and sun. Sometimes swift and sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep ! Thus is nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wand'ring thought ; Thus she dresses... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 pages
...Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run Thvough woods and meads, in fhade and fun ; .Sometimes fwift, fometimes flow, Wave fucceeding...A various journey to the deep, Like human life to enrllefs fleep ! 1 Read the last iine with great dtiikeraiien aod c A Thus is nature's vefhire wrought... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...Between the cradle and the grave. And fee the rivers, how they run Thro' woods and meads, in fhade and fun '• Sometimes fwift, fometimes flow, Wave...A various journey to the deep, Like human life to final fleep. Thus is nature's vefture wrought, To iiiUiuct our wand'ring thought; This fhe drefles... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pages
...they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep t Thus is nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus she dresses... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 414 pages
...they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus she dresses... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wandering thought ; Thus she dresses... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wandering thought; Thus she dresses... | |
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