 | 1831 - 442 páginas
...be your wisdom!" Hymn on t/te Works of Nature. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learn'd To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread...back The sound of anthems — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offer'd to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 páginas
.... Lyre, sword, and flower,— farewell ' LESSON CXXIII. God's first Temples — A Hymn. — BRYANT. The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn tnanks \nd supplication.... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 290 páginas
...fellow-creatures. The worship of God, in the open air, is beautiful. Read these lines : The proves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the...back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And 'supplication.... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1833 - 352 páginas
...the cool and silence, man knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication, ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems !" We halted to eat our mid-day repast at a house, the mistress of which had a very sinister expression,... | |
 | 1834 - 332 páginas
...Druids, and their mysterious groves, threw round it a clothing of awe and pomp scarcely ever equalled. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, on their arrival, introduced a milder ecclesiastical sway, and after a time something of the tincture... | |
 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 418 páginas
...dying spirits of the former; or the wounded hearts of the latter. In the beautiful poetry of Bryant: " The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...back " The sound of anthems, in the darkling wood, " Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, " And ofier'd to the Mightiest, solemn thanks " And supplication."... | |
 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 430 páginas
...dying spirits of the former; or the wounded hearts of the latter. In the beautiful poetry of Bryant: " The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, " And spread the roof above Ihem, ere he framed " The lofty vault, to gather and roll back "' The sound of anthems, in the darkling... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 páginas
...listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. FOREST HYMN. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood. Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication.... | |
 | 1838 - 348 páginas
...temples. Ere man learn'd The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silenee, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the saered influenees, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | 1839 - 430 páginas
...the rippling sea.— O, whither on its waters rideth Lee r God's first Temples. A Hymn.—BRYAJCT. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The iofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems,—in the darkling... | |
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THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,... 
