 There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome...  The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of ... - Page 164by Gem book - 1846 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...falling dew." As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy1 brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power2 whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast3 — The desert... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf d ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thon the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way alone that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
 | James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1846 - 538 pages
...thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. — 3 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ?. 4 There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
 | Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard - 1846 - 348 pages
...Bryant, which are as applicable to our present circumstances, as to the solitary bird upon the wing : ' There is a Power whose care, Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The dqeert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost ! : ' ' I feel the justness of the rebuke... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Greece - 1847 - 400 pages
...and terrible, without tracing that sublimity and beauty to a divine source ; without feeling that " There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along...and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost." CHAPTER XXXL The Muses, Graces, and Sirens. 1. THE Muses were nine sisters, daughters of Jupiter and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. AH day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,— The desert and... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ! There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
 | Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 pages
...honk,1' delivered in a stentorian voice, calls upon each companion in the long line to follow him. <( There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — ixmo wandering, hut not loat. " He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy... | |
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