 | American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...desolate main, While the wonder and pride of your works remain. TO A WATERFOWL. BY WC BRTANT. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...flight 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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 298 pages
...lonely flight of the water-fowl. Veneration prompted the inquiry, " Whither 'midst falling dew, When glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way I" Sometimes, in musing upon genius in its simpler manifestations, it seems as if the great art of... | |
 | John Frost - California - 1850 - 558 pages
...marked by the swiftness of their flight, and the height to which they soar : " Vainly the fowler'* eye, Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong; As darkly painted on the crimson iky. Thy figure float* along. "Seek'st tluw the pla»hy brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of river... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens with the.../ Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, / Thy figure floats along. / Thou'rt... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens with the...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...mind, and a fine sense of effect in throwing its figure on the back ground of the "crimson sky," amid the pricks of nettles' But the merits which possibly have had most weight in the public estimation of the poem, are the melody... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...flight 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... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 1817 TO A WATERFOWL \ Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? 5 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the... | |
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midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy... 
