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Selections from the American Poets Volume 50,.cWilliam Cullen Bryant
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Author: William Cullen Bryant
Number of Pages: 90 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231111420
Download Link: Selections from the American Poets Volume 50,
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...THE PATRIARCHAL AGE. Oh! for those early days, when patriarchs dwelt In pastoral tents, that rose beneath the palm, When life was pure, and every bosom felt Unwarp'd affection's sweetest, holiest balm, And like the silent scene around them, calm, Years stole along in one unruffled flow; Their hearts aye warbled with devotion's psalm, And as they saw their buds around them blow, Their keenly glistening eye revealed the grateful glow. They sat at evening, when their gather'd flocks Bleated and sported by the palm-crowned well, The sun was glittering on the pointed rocks, And long and wide the deepening shadows fell;They sang their hymn, and in a choral swell They raised their simple voices to the Power Who smiled along the fair sky; they would dwell Fondly and deeply on his praise; that hour Was to them, as to flowers that droop and fade, the shower. He warm'd them in the sunbeams, and they gazed In wonder on that kindling fount of light; And as, hung on the glowing west, it blazed In brighter glories, with a full delight They pour'd their pealing anthem, and when night Lifted her silver forehead, and the moon Roll'd through the blue serenity, in bright But softer radiance, they bless'd the boon That gave those hours the charm without the fire of noon. Spring of the living world, the dawn of nature, When man walk'd forth the lord of all below, Erect and godlike in his giant stature, Before the tainted gales of vice 'gan blow: His conscience spotless as the new-fallen snow, Pure as the crystal spouting from the spring, He aim'd no murderous dagger, drew no bow, But at the soaring of the eagle's wing, The gaunt wolf's stealthy step, the lion's ravening spring. With brutes alone he arm'd himself for war; Free to the winds his long locks dancing flew, And at his ...
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Selections from the American Poets Volume 50,.cWilliam Cullen Bryant
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Number of Pages: 90 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231111420
Download Link: Selections from the American Poets Volume 50,
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...THE PATRIARCHAL AGE. Oh! for those early days, when patriarchs dwelt In pastoral tents, that rose beneath the palm, When life was pure, and every bosom felt Unwarp'd affection's sweetest, holiest balm, And like the silent scene around them, calm, Years stole along in one unruffled flow; Their hearts aye warbled with devotion's psalm, And as they saw their buds around them blow, Their keenly glistening eye revealed the grateful glow. They sat at evening, when their gather'd flocks Bleated and sported by the palm-crowned well, The sun was glittering on the pointed rocks, And long and wide the deepening shadows fell;They sang their hymn, and in a choral swell They raised their simple voices to the Power Who smiled along the fair sky; they would dwell Fondly and deeply on his praise; that hour Was to them, as to flowers that droop and fade, the shower. He warm'd them in the sunbeams, and they gazed In wonder on that kindling fount of light; And as, hung on the glowing west, it blazed In brighter glories, with a full delight They pour'd their pealing anthem, and when night Lifted her silver forehead, and the moon Roll'd through the blue serenity, in bright But softer radiance, they bless'd the boon That gave those hours the charm without the fire of noon. Spring of the living world, the dawn of nature, When man walk'd forth the lord of all below, Erect and godlike in his giant stature, Before the tainted gales of vice 'gan blow: His conscience spotless as the new-fallen snow, Pure as the crystal spouting from the spring, He aim'd no murderous dagger, drew no bow, But at the soaring of the eagle's wing, The gaunt wolf's stealthy step, the lion's ravening spring. With brutes alone he arm'd himself for war; Free to the winds his long locks dancing flew, And at his ...
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