 | 1837 - 648 pages
...' she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours, She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.' But we fear the objections are far greater in another respect. It is said that the pedagogue closes... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...nature, to suppose we are most fit to give our hearts to God, when under an abject fear of death ; that 1 When thoughts of the last bitter hour Come like a blight over our spirits, And the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 272 pages
...forms, she spfaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. — Go forth under the open sky,... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. Bryant. CIVILIZATION. WE are apt to entertain erroneous notions of the pleasures enjoyed in past ages.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...| for his gayer hours, | She has a voice of glad'ness, | and a smile, And eloquence of beairty ; \ and she glides Into his darker musings | with a mild...the last bitter hour, ! come like a blight Over thy spirk ; | and sad images" Of the stern , agony,b | and shroud', \ and pall', \ And breathless dark/ness,... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware." The rising sun is in unison with the energy of man ; the kindling skies call forth his imagination... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1841 - 336 pages
..." She speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." Phantasmion. — Page 166. I was not a little gratified, three years after my Table-Talk Notices of... | |
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing... 
