 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 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 make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; 40 The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...immortality the poet asks us to take comfort from the beauty of our common sepulcher: The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...meadows green; and, pour'd round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | Peter Loewer - Gardening - 2000 - 260 pages
..."Thanatopsis," blank verse written when he was sixteen years old in which Nature discusses death: Old oceans gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. - " He went to work in 1826 as an editor at the New York Evening Post, and from 1829 until his death... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Gary A. Randorf - Architecture - 2002 - 228 pages
...possible to improve upon the ways of nature . . . The hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the venerable woods — rivers that move in majesty...the complaining brooks that make the meadows green, these for years had been neglected by the people of the state . . . the men of public spirit generally,... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...with Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.' The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 356 pages
...illustrated well by the American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): ... The Hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun. - the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old oceans grey and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
 | George Rapanos - Religion - 2006 - 295 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
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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... 
