 And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers whose glory and whose multitude Rival the...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 441837Full view - About this book
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - 1911 - 480 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky—...glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love,— A nearer vault, and of a tenderer blue,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1911 - 282 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers whose glory and whose multitude 30 Rival the °constellations ! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A... | |
 | James George Needham - 1914 - 356 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky...glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations." — Bryant (The Prairies). Chief of all land laws is the law of gravity. The solid crust of the earth... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. e's humble bed s . 3° Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love — A nearer... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1923 - 566 pages
...sown their slope? With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky...glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations ! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nearer vault, and of a tenderer... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers whose glory and whose multitude 30 Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nearer... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky— With flowers whose glory and whose multitude зо Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nearer... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island-groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers whose glory and whose multitude 3° Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nearer... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...is an objectionable elipsis in the expression "I behold them for the first," meaning "first time;" and either a grammatical or typographical error of...represents himself as lying on the earth in a "midnight black with clouds," and giving ideal voices to the varied sounds of the coming tempest. The following... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky—...glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love,— A nearer vault, and of a tenderer blue,... | |
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