 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 Williams Quarterly - Page 2921857Full view - About this book
 | Charles Beebe Turrill - 1876 - 262 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...free ; 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, And held it trembling»there. AMRLIA B. WKLBY Fnat.} CLV. What a cunning silversmith is the Frost ! The rarest... | |
 | 1879 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 pages
...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 young moon, too, with upturned sides, Her mirrored beauty gave, And, as a bark at anchor rides,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave, witli dimpled face, ed out ! All within and all about Shall a fresher lite begin ; Freer breathe the univers ЛИЕЫЛ B. WELBY. OCEAN. FROM "THE COURSE OF TIME," BOOK I. GREAT Ocean ! strongest of creation's... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1881 - 426 pages
...birds flew by, As lightly and as free; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea: For every wave with dimpled cheek That leaped upon...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... | |
 | Isabella Lucy Bird - 1881 - 416 pages
...thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea, And every wave with dimpled face, That leapt upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." The loneliness of Usu Bay is something wonderful — a house full of empty rooms falling to decay,... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - 1881 - 402 pages
...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,... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1885 - 350 pages
...birds flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand In the sea ; For every wave with dimpled cheek That leaped upon...star in its embrace. And held it trembling there." Who is insensible to the exquisite beauty of the thought here ? Yet the wave of the sea or lake, reflecting... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...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. SARAH H. WHITMAN. SONNETS TO EDGAR ALLAN POE. WHEN first I looked into thr glorious eyes. And saw,... | |
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