 O'er the mountains quivering play; Till the fiercer splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthy forms expire; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That burning like molten...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2551865Full view - About this book
 | Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...together Till this sleeping world is stirred. " Leave me to gaze at the landscape Mistily stretching rway, When the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains...west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That,... | |
 | 1865 - 794 pages
...— The thing without blood or brain, — Or, by the body of Isis, I'll snap his thin neck in twain 1 Leave me to gaze at the landscape Mistily stretching...west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their eartbly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That... | |
 | Music - 1867 - 860 pages
...afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play ; Till the fiercer splendor of snnset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ! And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That... | |
 | History - 1869 - 730 pages
...away, When the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play; Till the fiercer splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald, blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...away, Where the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play Till the fiercer splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, I... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...away, Where the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play Till the fiercer splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in n crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...afternoon's opalino tremors O'er the mountains quivering play; Till the fiercer splendor of suiuet I*ours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the Iwild blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That,... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 752 pages
...fierce splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert...crowned, That burning like molten jewels Circle its temple round. I will lie and dream of the past-time, ./Eons of thoughts away, And through the jungle... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...away, When the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play ; Till the fierce splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted, as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1888 - 212 pages
...away, When the afternoon's opaline tremors O'er the mountains quivering play; Till the fiercer splendor of sunset Pours from the west its fire, And melted as in a crucible, Their earthly forms expire ; And the bald, blear skull of the desert With glowing mountains is crowned, That,... | |
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