 | American literature - 1872
...embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar ; Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...fringing plain of oaks ; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | American literature - 1872
...Day by day the sunlight glittered on the vacant, smiling seas ; 6o4 Concepción de Arguello. [May, Week by week the near hills whitened in their dusty...fringing plain of oaks ; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 352 pages
...embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar; Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...darkened from the fringing plain of oaks; Till the rains cnme, and far-breaking, on the fierce sonthwestiT tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 352 pages
...embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar ; Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...fringing plain of oaks ; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879
...deep embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...the fringing plain of oaks; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879
...where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer ' POEMS OF PLACES. i Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...the fringing plain of oaks; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1879 - 146 pages
...embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar ; Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty...fringing plain of oaks ; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | English poetry - 1879
...they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar; Day by day on wall and bastion beat tlie hollow empty breeze, — Day by day the sunlight glittered...the fringing plain of oaks; Till the rains came, and far-breaking, on the fierce southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with color, and then vanished... | |
 | Bishop Oscar Penn Fitzgerald - California - 1881 - 288 pages
...few picturesque lines: ^'eek by week the near hills whitened, In their dusty leather cloaka ; 'yVeek by week the far hills darkened, From the fringing...coast with color, And then vanished and were lost. With these rains the grass springs up, the trees put out, and the winds disappear, leaving in the air... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1882 - 324 pages
...embrasures, where the brazen cannon are, Did they wait the promised bridegroom and the answer of the Czar ; Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow, empty...southwester tost, Dashed the whole long coast with colour, and then vanished and were lost. So each year the seasons shifted, — wet and warm and drear... | |
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Day by day on wall and bastion beat the hollow empty breeze, — Day by day the sunlight glittered on the vacant, smiling seas ; Week by week the near hills whitened in their dusty leather cloaks, — Week by week the far hills darkened from the fringing... 
