To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never... Annual Register - Page 541edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...think of the solitary just at his side. He says also, on the other hand : To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where wings that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot...ne'er, or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean... | |
| James Frank Hanly - 1916 - 224 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH : Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle. 32 FOREWORD To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man s dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pages
...power." //. 2. " The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul." //. 6. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;... | |
| Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 296 pages
...solitude and loveliness of Nature and scorning companionship with man : To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;... | |
| Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 298 pages
...scorning companionship with man: To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the foresfs shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion...ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...the weary breast Would -.till, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. To sit on rooks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the truckler mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming... | |
| Knut Hagberg - 1925 - 372 pages
...stora naturevangeliet: »To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the foresfs shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion...ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;... | |
| Albert Brecknock - 1926 - 344 pages
...he wrote some of the most beautiful poetry in praise of solitude : " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, Alone." 1 Moore's Byron, pp. 644, 645. • Gait's Life of Byron. And again : " Oh I that... | |
| 1860 - 468 pages
...devices, which was not very unpleasant, to one of them at least. • To sit on rocks, and muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady...or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean... | |
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