 ... to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold;...  The Christian Observer - Page 5031832Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | Poet - 1837 - 1082 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll 'd. " But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | M F. Dickson - 1837 - 748 pages
...o'er flood and fell — To slowly trace the forest's shady scene ;" of which the poet declares — " This is not solitude ; — 'tis but to hold, Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled :" for he did not like to indulge himself in any very prolonged ramble in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 322 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock which never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, This is not solitude— 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd." — Byron. boxes !"orany of the thousands of cries that salute us at every... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean: This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam... | |
 | William Adam - 1838 - 300 pages
...all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unnill'd." 178. " There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture in... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, aud view her stores unroll'd. ' But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not Solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But, midst the crowd, the hum, the snock ol men, To hear, to see, to feel, .and to possess, And roam... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...(as he has been called) might have exclaimed : " Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean — " This is not solitude;— 'tis but to hold " Converse...with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd." We also, as if subdued by a kindred spirit, leant long and dreamily over the fall, prying into its... | |
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