| American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...North American Review. VOICE OF NATURE. To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. Bryant. CIVILIZATION. WE are apt... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...mother's hand. THANATOPSIS.— BRYANT. To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals a"way Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
| American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...unregretted by the soul. Thanatopsis*—BRYANT. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, ami a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...brighter day. THANATOPSIS. BY WC BRYANT. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
| Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...back to thee. EM CHANDLER. THANATOPSIS. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...she glides Into his' darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...brighter day. THANATOPSIS. BY WC BRYANT. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
| George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...mind, and blend with his very being. " To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware." The rising sun is in unison with... | |
| Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1841 - 340 pages
...and of one who " holds communion with her visible forms," the poet observes, that to such an one, " She speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." Phantasmion. — Page 166. 1 was... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...counsels. | THANATOPSIS.* (WC BRYANT.) To him who, in the love of Nature, | holds Communion with Aer visible forms, | she speaks A various language : |...voice of glad'ness, | and a smile, And eloquence of beairty ; \ and she glides Into his darker musings | with a mild And gentle sym'pathy | that steals... | |
| Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - Christian life - 1842 - 164 pages
...can there ' go forth and list to nature's teachings,' and you will find, my husband, that ' For man's gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.' A few months after, on a sweet... | |
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