 | James Martineau - 1846 - 538 页
...for ever bright. 649. BRYANT. The water-fowl. " There is apath which no fowl knowstii." 1 WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? 2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 页
...word, And aye will welcome back again its little travelling bird. T. AIRD. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly pointed on the crimson... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 页
...bough : I hail thee, Mercy's herald then, Her sacred symbol now. . F. SMITH. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seekest thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide. Or where the rocking billows rise... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 页
...lonely flight of the water-fowl. Veneration prompted the inquiry, — "' Whither 'midst falling dew When glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy steps dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? " Sometimes, in musing upon genius in its simpler manifestations,... | |
 | 1848 - 124 页
...praise will try To make the bard like thee, forget his native sky. JONES VERY. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,— The desert and illimitable... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 页
...king's boasted name, Unmentioned in holy songs—unheralded by fame. To A WATERFOWL. WB Flower. WHITHER midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake or margin of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is... | |
 | 1848 - 594 页
...repetition of some sweet old melody, for very sweet and melodious we think it. TO A WATER-FOWL. ' WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Vainly the... | |
 | 1848 - 548 页
...repetition of some sweet old melody, for very sweet and melodious we think it. TQ A WATER-FOWL. ' WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost I lion pursue Thy solitary way ? * . .* .,' ... - . ... . Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 页
...Genevieve. And oft he turns his truant eye, And pauses oft, and lingers near; TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHEB, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye /• f Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, I Thy... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 页
...lines, "To a Waterfowl," that are, or should be, familiar to al readers of American poetry : " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? " All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
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TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted... 
