 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - Gift books - 1828 - 384 pages
...Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence. In vain — thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart : Nor to the streaming eye Thou giv'st...her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea. Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith — Love, that midst grief began, And grew... | |
 | Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...— thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart ; Nor to the streaming eye Thou givest them back — nor to the broken heart. In thy abysses...gathered, as the waters to the sea. Labors of good toman, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith, — Love, that midst grief began, And grew with years,... | |
 | Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
...— thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart ; Nor to the streaming eye Thou givest them back — nor to the broken heart. " In thy abysses...her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea." pp. 21, 22. " Thanatopsis," one of his earliest and most popular poems, may be in a lower strain than... | |
 | England - 1832 - 868 pages
...back, nor to the broken heart. In Ihy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown— to thee hartU's wonder and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea. Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith,— Love that 'midst grief began, And grew... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - Education, Humanistic - 1833 - 64 pages
...empires sit in sullermess and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown....her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea. Full many a mighty name Lurks in thy depths, unuttered, unrevered, With thee are silent Fame, Forgotten... | |
 | 1837 - 408 pages
...— thy gates deny All passage, save to those who hence depart ; Nor to the streaming eye Thou givest them back, nor to the broken heart. " In thy abysses...and her pride Are gathered as the waters to the sea. " Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith, — Love that midst grief began, And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...and pluck thy captives thence. TO THE PAST. 29 In vain — thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart ; Nor to the streaming eye Thou giv'st...and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea ; Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith, — Love, that midst grief began, And... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pages
...empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown....her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea. Full many a mighty name Lurks in thy depths, unuttered, unrevered, With thee are silent Fame, Forgotten... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and ar« bound. Bryant. " In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown...and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea ; " labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith — Love, that 'midst grief began,... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...draws us to the p<n»' And last, Mail 9 Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and an bound 127 " In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown—...and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea j " labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith — Love, that 'midst grief began,... | |
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The venerable form, the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence. 
