 Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; a disciplined and populous...  Poems - Page 51by William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 508 pages
...other days, — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life, And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds, That overlook the rivers, or...Answer. — A race that long has passed away Built (hem ; a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1834 - 428 pages
...-and did the dust Of these lair solitudes oner stir with life. And kuro wall passion .' Let the might} mounds. That overlook the rivers, or that rise In...oaks, Answer.— A race, that long has passed away, Uuill them ; a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil, Ihe eaith, while yel Ihe Greek... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...other days' ? And did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life', And burn with passion' ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers', or...toil, the earth', while yet the Greek Was hewing the Peritelicus* to forms Of symmetry', and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon'.! These ample... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...of other days? and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or...crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...stir with life And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the riven, or that rite In the dim forest. crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Haap'd, with long toil, the earth, while... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...other days ? — and did the dust I if these fair solitudes once stir with life And bum with passion ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or...crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Bui'.t them; — a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with Ione; toil, the earth, while... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1843 - 324 pages
...oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was...rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their harvests, here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison low'd, And... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...of other days ? and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or...crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...oaks, Answer. A race that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was...Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock 70 THE PRAIRIES. The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their harvests, here their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms [Greek Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their harvests ; here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison low'd, And... | |
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