God ! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises... The United States Literary Gazette - Page 281824Full view - About this book
| 1826 - 192 pages
...The generation born with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them;—and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...thoo Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? O, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine; nor let us need the wrath Of the mad,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? 0, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine f- nor let us need the wrath Of the mad,... | |
| 1837 - 830 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...whirlwind that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would have preferred the word fright to scare, and omitted the definite article... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 286 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark...the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, FOREST HYMN. His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirKvind, that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages; when,...power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? O, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine ; nor let us need the wrath Of the mad,... | |
| 1838 - 348 pages
...thou Dost ware the world with tempests, set on Iire The heavens with Ialling thunderholts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament. The swift, dark whirlwind, that uproot a the woods. And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises the great Deep, and throws... | |
| Emily Taylor - 1839 - 304 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities;—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
| 1839 - 430 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities;—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
| Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...And drowns the villages; when', at thy call, Uprises ihe great deep, and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities;—who forgets not,... | |
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