 | T. E. Poynting - 1853 - 402 pages
...along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost." " He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain Highly In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright." BRYANT " To the Water-fowl."... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form...must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Bryant. 1. Our island— what island ? 2. In what direction does the tide stream of migration flow in spring.... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. 25 Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form;...shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, 30 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 376 pages
...thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, 29. In the 1825 "Lectures," Bryant declares, "Well, when we are persuaded to part with our hearth-fires,... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - 1997 - 414 pages
...William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl," 1815, 11. 29-32. The lines in the 1821 edition of Poems read: He, who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. See William Cullen Bryant. Poems. Cambridge: Printed By Milliard And Metcalf, 1821, p. 28. 7.33 my... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...him corresponds to the instinct that guides the bird, and that the Power watches over him as well: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Bryant did not invent the stanza form of "To a Waterfowl," which he found in Southey's poem, "Hope." But he... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1 8031882) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 8.1.1 IÌRYAXT, BUILDER He who, from zone to zone. Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. — William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" The last lines from William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl,"... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pages
...waterfowl in a mood of joyous pensive affirmation, then the last points the pious moral (APNC i: 125): He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. The genre extends back, of course, to the British romantics and thence to Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy... | |
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Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that... 
