| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...indebted almost exclusively to the following ode :— ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 Solitnde, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawmng tomb, Or climb the Andes' elided side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your... | |
| 1851 - 362 pages
...the Andes' clifted side, For Bryan he was tall and strong, ' • Or hy the Nile's coy source ahide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla view the thawing deep, Right hlythsome roll'd his eenj Sweet was his voice whene'er he/sung, 15 He scant had twenty seen.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...same island, a victim to the West Indian fever. ODE TO SOLITUDE. О SOLITUDE, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or clirnb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Л'Пе'з coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's... | |
| 1855 - 834 pages
...same island, a victim to the West Indian fever. ODE TO SOLITUDE. О SOLITUDE, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifled side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starling from your half-year's sleep From Hecla... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1856 - 576 pages
...rectifying the two last lines, which were thus given by the author : 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, ' * Author of a poem on the " Culture of tho Sugar-Cane," */•-. published hy Messrs. Wood and DawkiniL... | |
| English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...by the Author: 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or...deep, Or at the purple dawn of day Tadmor's marble wastes survey, &c. alluding to the account of Palmyra published by some late ingenious travellers,... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1858 - 396 pages
...Or hannt the desnrt's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' cllfted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting...sleep From Hecla view the thawing deep, Or at the pnrple dawn of day Tadmor's marble wastes survey, &c. alluding to the account of Palmyra published... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...almost exclusively to the following ode : — ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifled side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...with the opening lines, proves Grainger a poet. ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...deep, Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey, You, recluse, again I woo, And again your steps pursue. Plumed Conceit himself surveying,... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 pages
...rectifying tho two last lines, which were thus given by the author : 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, • Author of a poem on tho " Culture of the Sugar-Cane," IK., published by Messrs. Wood and Dawkins.... | |
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