And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk... Time's Telescope - Page 1151824Full view - About this book
| T. E. Poynting - 1853 - 402 pages
...along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost." " He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain Highly In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright." BRYANT " To the Water-fowl."... | |
| Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. THE AFRICAN CHIEF Chained in the market-place he stood, A man of giant frame, Amid the gathering multitude... | |
| Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. 25 Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson...shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, 30 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will... | |
| A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - American literature - 1996 - 376 pages
...thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, 29. In the 1825 "Lectures," Bryant declares, "Well, when we are persuaded to part with our hearth-fires,... | |
| Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl," 1815, 11. 29-32. The lines in the 1821 edition of Poems read: He, who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. See William Cullen Bryant. Poems. Cambridge: Printed By Milliard And Metcalf, 1821, p. 28. 7.33 my... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...him corresponds to the instinct that guides the bird, and that the Power watches over him as well: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Bryant did not invent the stanza form of "To a Waterfowl," which he found in Southey's poem, "Hope."... | |
| David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1 8031882) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 8.1.1 IÌRYAXT, BUILDER He who, from zone to zone. Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. — William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" The last lines from William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl,"... | |
| Robert Faggen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 308 pages
...waterfowl in a mood of joyous pensive affirmation, then the last points the pious moral (APNC i: 125): He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. The genre extends back, of course, to the British romantics and thence to Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan... | |
| Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 pages
...of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The central figure among the Transcendentalist group of philosophers,... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He6 who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. 1818 This poem resembles what MH Abrams identified as "the greater romantic lyric" as practiced by... | |
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