 ... these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness.  The American Naturalist - Page 5711871Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 286 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever. — Motionless? — No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1837 - 164 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. — Motionless ? — No— they're all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows, and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever. — Motionless 1 — No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their... | |
 | 1845 - 648 lehte
...Takes in the encircling vastness. So they stretch In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean in his gentlest swell Stood still with all his rounded billows fixed And motionless for ever. Motionless ? No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 lehte
...Takes in the encircling vastness. So they stretch In airy undulations far away, As if the ocean in his gentlest swell, Stood still with all his rounded billows fixed And motionless for ever. Motionless? No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
 | William John Alden Bradford - 1846 - 326 lehte
...him a wide expanse of prairie " Stretching In graceful undulations, far away As if the ocean in his gentlest swell Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed And motionless — " The prairie has, for the most part, this undulating surface. Some of it is broken by ridges and... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 lehte
...the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch, In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever. Motionless ? — • No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever.—Motionless ?— No—they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever. Motionless ? No, they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 lehte
...in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. — Motionless ? — No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows,... | |
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