 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves. While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sun-shine seems to move; nor e'en a breath Brushes...leaves are still, E'en the wild poplar leaves, that, pendant hung By stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle down Seen... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes...stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle-down, Seen high and thick, by gazing up beside Some shading object, in a silver shower... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, 30* The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes...E'en the wild poplar leaves, that, pendent hung By steins elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general caltn. The thistle down, Seen high and thick,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 608 pages
...Fleeting and thin, like that of flying smoke. O'er allthe woods the top-most leaves are still. Even the wild poplar leaves that, pendent hung By stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle-down, Seen high and thick, by gazing up beside Some shading object, in a silver shower... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1832 - 420 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move; nor e'en a breath Brushes...stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle-down, Seen high and thick, by gazing up beside Some shading object, in a silver shower... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath brushes...heads ••Support as motionless as oaks their tops. OVr all the woods the topmost leaves are still; E'en the wild poplar leaves, that, pendent hung By... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes...stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle down, Seen high and thick, by gazing up beside Some shading object, in a silver shower... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes...the wild poplar leaves, that, pendent hung By stems elastie, quiver at a breath, Rest in the general calm. The thistle down, Seen high and thick, by gazing... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes...pendent hung By stems elastic, quiver at a breath, Kest in the general calm. The thistle down, Seen high and thick, by gazing up beside * How perfect... | |
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The flocks beside the fence, with heads all prone, And panting quick. The fields, for harvest ripe, No breezes bend in smooth and graceful waves, While with their motion, dim and bright by turns, The sunshine seems to move ; nor e'en a breath Brushes... 
