 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That...meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland, James Smillie - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - 1847 - 184 pages
...in pensive quietness between ; — The venerable woods" — " and pourM round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste— Are but the solemn decorations all, Of the great tomb of man." BRYANT. IT is fifteen years since Mount Auburn, near Boston, was set apart as a place of sepulture.... | |
 | Bible stories, English - 1848 - 272 pages
...ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between — The venerable...the meadows green; and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn declarations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...the mellow horn her pensive soul. 74. " The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between, — The venerable...That make the meadows green, — and, poured round oil, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That...meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales, Streching in pensive quid ness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green; and, poured round all Old ocean's gray arid melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable...meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.' " III.—... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...— All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable...meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 472 pages
...past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable...meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are bnt the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Consolation - 1849 - 268 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable...meadows green, and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." But of... | |
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The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and... 
