 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, , Are ginning on the sad abodes of death, Through the... | |
 | Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
..."The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 598 pages
...hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between — The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 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...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Consolation - 1837 - 264 pages
...and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable Voods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks,...solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." But of what is it the tomb ? Does the spirit die 1 Do the blessed affections of the soul go down into... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty...decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, THANATOPSIS. 77 The planets, all the infinite host of heaven* Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
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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 melancholy... 
