 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...searcher of dark bosoms" (as he has been called) might have exclaimed : " Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean — " This is not solitude;— 'tis...with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd." We also, as if subdued by a kindred spirit, leant long and dreamily over the fall, prying into its... | |
 | 1840 - 350 pages
...mountain, all unseen, With the wild flock that seldom sees a fold ; Alone o'er steeps, and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude : 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms and view her stores unroll'd." BIRON. IT is certainly a lonely and fatiguing pleasure to thread the defiles,... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 pages
...trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flocks that never need a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; — This is not solitude !— ' tis but to hold Converse with Nature's God, and see His stores unrolled. Forget we not the Artist in the art, Nor overlook the Giver in the... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 pages
...trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flocks that never need a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; — This is not solitude ! — ' tis but to hold Converse with Nature's God, and see His stores unrolled. Forget we not the Artist in the art, Nor overlook the Giver in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to sec, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Rut midRt the crowd, the hum, the shock of men. To hear. to see, to feel, and to posee*', And roam along, the wortd's-tired denizen. With none who bless us, none whom we can hiess,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...mountain all unseen, With the wild flock, that never needs a. fold ; Alone o'er steeps, and foaming falls to lean ; — This is not solitude : 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. Byron. THE HEAVENS. I GAZE upon yon orbs of light, The countless stars that... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1844 - 334 pages
...trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled." I am now standing by the side of a high bank, on which the setting sun is... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pages
...trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold j Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...trackless mountain afl unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude — 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
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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... 
