| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,— The desert and... | |
| Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking hillows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side 1 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
| George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. 3 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink 4 There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...falling dew." As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy1 brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power2 whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast3 — The desert... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf d ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly pointed on the crimson sky, Thy 6gure floats along. Seek'st t hon thy plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to... | |
| James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1846 - 538 pages
...thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. — 3 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ?. 4 There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thon the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way alone that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
| Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard - 1846 - 348 pages
...Bryant, which are as applicable to our present circumstances, as to the solitary bird upon the wing : ' There is a Power whose care, Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The dqeert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost ! : ' ' I feel the justness of the rebuke... | |
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