 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...country in regard to lynching of Negroes that we are forced to seek shelter with the poets and cry, "O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade, where rumor of oppression and deceit, of successful or unsuccessful mobs might never reach me more." My ear... | |
 | David John Headon, Elizabeth M. Perkins - History - 1998 - 228 pages
...listener's heart — sighs such as the soft blue distances unfolded by breezy vistas will often bring For a lodge in some vast wilderness — Some boundless contiguity of shade. To produce delightful landscapes in verse is a very easy matter. Turn metrically, and mutatis mutandis... | |
 | Religion - 1984 - 266 pages
...I have longed for rest, for I have heard this world's rumors in my ears so long that I have begged for A lodge in some vast wilderness. Some boundless contiguity of shade, where I might hide myself forever. I am sick of this tiring and trying life; my frame is weary; my soul is... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...arch of empire, stedfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to fall. from Book Two [1-74] Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...war. Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is... | |
 | Marcus Wood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 772 pages
...am free, At my best home if not exiled from thee. The Task, Book II, 'The Time Piece' (11. 1-65) Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no... | |
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OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. 
