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. The United States Democratic Review - Página 1881845Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 448 páginas
...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...with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. * * Man hath no power in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the firmament hath heaved... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 422 páginas
...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...with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. * * Man hath no power in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the firmament hath heaved... | |
| Joseph Thomson - 1885 - 514 páginas
...small humpy hills or volcanic eones, well described in the lines of Bryant, extending as they do — "In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean in...gentlest swell Stood still, with all his rounded billows fix'd, And motionless for ever." Such is the country : but see its inhabitants ! » There, towards... | |
| William J. Cassidy - 1887 - 392 páginas
...viz., an upward and downward shift of the North Pole. CHAPTER VII. NORTH AMERICAN PRAIRIES. " Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if...with all his rounded billows fixed And motionless forever. Motionless ! They are all unchanged again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows, and,... | |
| Joseph Thomson - 1887 - 430 páginas
...small humpy hills or volcanic cones, well described in the lines of Bryant, extending as they do — " In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean in his...gentlest swell Stood still, with all his rounded billows fix'd, And motionless for ever." buffalo slowly and leisurely moving up from the lower grazing-grounds... | |
| Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 páginas
...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...with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. Motionless? No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
| Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - 1892 - 546 páginas
...no name — The prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean, in...with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. Motionless ? No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
| Ishbel Gordon Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair - 1893 - 276 páginas
...first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they lie In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in...beneath The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye. Man hath no part in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed... | |
| John Noble - 1893 - 668 páginas
...solitary peak, but generally extending in unbroken monotony to the horizon:— " In airy undulations, As if the ocean in his gentlest swell Stood still,...his rounded billows fixed And motionless for ever." These prairies were formerly covered with coarse grasses, over which roamed vast herds of wild game.... | |
| Hugh Johnston - 1893 - 346 páginas
...vast and it indeed seems boundless prairies, feeling the full force of the words of the poet : '"Lo.! they stretch In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean, in his gentle swell, Stood still with all his rounded billows fixed And motionless for ever." " The long journey... | |
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