 | 1833 - 508 pages
...boundless unshorn fields, where lingers yet The beauty of the earth ere man had sinned — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if an ocean in its gentlest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...compressed at the sides. Rambling onwards in the direction of Sandusky, I now came upon the prairies. " I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. 1л ! They stretch In airy undulation far away, As if an ocean in its gentlest... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Economics - 1837 - 164 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth ere man had sinned. The Prairies! I behold them for the first. And my heart swells. while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest... | |
 | William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...boundless unshorn fields, where lingers yet The beauty of the earth ere man had sinned ; The prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the delighted sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away,... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 306 pages
...bold mountain scenery of the North, and •who now gazed upon them " for the first." " The prairies ! I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness." As I rode leisurely along upon the prairie's edge, I passed many noble farms,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away. As if the ocean, in-liist gentlest... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...boundless, unshorn fields, where lingers yet The beauty of the earth' ere man had sinned' — The Prairies'. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells', while the dilated sight Takes in the circling vastness. Lo ! they stretch, In airy undulations, far away', As if an ocean, in its gentlest... | |
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These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, ; And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. 
