The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. The Female Poets of America - Seite 329von Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 400 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 Seiten
...Nature.] CLIIL Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in every. where. EMBRSON. CLIV. The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly...; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea; For every wave with dimpled face That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace,... | |
| Charles Beebe Turrill - 1876 - 262 Seiten
...over the mountain peaks and the nestling lake, where " Every wave with dimpled face, That leap'd into the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." It has been stated that the southern fork of the Yosemite Valley is merely a recess in the valley wall,... | |
| 1873 - 164 Seiten
...Wanted. — Whose are the following lines ? They are quoted in Professor Haven's "Moral Philosophy": " The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." AUREUI. Chicago, Feb. 10, 1873. [By Mrs. Welby, a clever American poetess, who wrote under the nom... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
..."Grieve no more, sweet ; I am Jamie, Home returned to love and thee." DAVID MACllETH MOIRTWILIGHT AT SEA. THE twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...wave, with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Hail caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. AMELIA B. WELDY. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.... | |
| 1879 - 480 Seiten
...stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea : For every wave with dimpled cheek That leapt into the air Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there." So I believe the righteous " who shine as stars forever and ever " have their counterparts in this... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...thoughtful hour of musing bv the Sea. JOHN CREENLEAF TWILIGHT AT SEA, Тик twilight hours, like birds, Hew That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, \Miat should it know of death ? 1 witli dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling... | |
| S. S. Hamill - 1881 - 402 Seiten
...my feet, and, quick as thought, Away the ripples flew. 4. The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, Aj1d held it trembling there. 5. The young moon, too, with upturned sides, Her mirrored beauty gave,... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1881 - 426 Seiten
...free; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea: For every wave with dimpled cheek That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. 125. Humor runs through his speeches like violets in a harvestfield, giving sweet odor and beauty to... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 Seiten
...stream — nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. AMELIA B. WELBY. TWILIGHT AT SEA. THE twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly...a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. SARAH H. WHITMAN. SONNETS TO EDGAR ALLAN POE. WHEN first I looked into thr glorious eyes. And saw,... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1885 - 350 Seiten
...conceptions, the more striking the figure, under such circumstances. I will give one other example : "The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly...; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand In the sea ; For every wave with dimpled cheek That leaped upon the air. Had caught a star in its embrace.... | |
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