 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...district of New-York. MERCEDES OF CASTILE. CHAPTER I. " Whither, 'midst fulling dew, While i,'...» the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou puisue Thy solitary way 7" THE slumbers of Columbus were of short duration. While his sleep lasted... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 498 pages
...of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. CHAPTEK XXXIV. " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ?" Bryant. WHEN the young seaman wb"o now commanded the frigate descended from the quarter-deck in... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...obedient son. he might look up To the Almighty Father of his race, And claim his guidance. John Jfty. Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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 on the crimson... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...never witnessed, and from which they may derive their sustenance." — Tract Society's Monthly Volume. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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 on the crimson... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens...their rosy depths dost thou pursue / Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - Poetry - 1978 - 398 pages
...thee nor will let thee pass Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. (1815; 1817) TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye s Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...mind, and a fine sense of effect in throwing its figure on the back ground of the "crimson sky," amid the pricks of nettles' But the merits which possibly have had most weight in the public estimation of the poem, are the melody... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
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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 on the crimson... 
