| Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 272 pages
...made better. " To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she spfaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. — Go forth under the open sky,... | |
| Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...North American Review. VOICE OF NATURE. To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. Bryant. CIVILIZATION. WE are apt to entertain erroneous notions of the pleasures enjoyed in past ages.... | |
| American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...unregretted by the soul. Thanatopsis*—BRYANT. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, ami a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...— the beautiful and young. THANATOPSIS. To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
| George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...mind, and blend with his very being. " To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware." The rising sun is in unison with the energy of man ; the kindling skies call forth his imagination... | |
| Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1841 - 340 pages
...and of one who " holds communion with her visible forms," the poet observes, that to such an one, " She speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." Phantasmion. — Page 166. 1 was not a little gratified, three years after my Table-Talk Notices of... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...counsels. | THANATOPSIS.* (WC BRYANT.) To him who, in the love of Nature, | holds Communion with Aer visible forms, | she speaks A various language : |...voice of glad'ness, | and a smile, And eloquence of beairty ; \ and she glides Into his darker musings | with a mild And gentle sym'pathy | that steals... | |
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