 Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 1091857Full view - About this book
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...moods. Who will doubt the identity of art and nature after the authoritative annunciation : " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 564 pages
...leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the nky, As on its friends, with kindred eye : For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze npon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...works of God, and to which tltese seem to nod in responsive sympathy. Eor, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adapted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...imitations of nature, but we never can apply to them the beautiful words of the American poet : — ' O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends with kindred eye ; For Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1852 - 346 pages
...works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says— . " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; JOHN MILTON. 1 7 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye; For out of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opea with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's Abbeys bonds. the sky As on iU friends... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1856 - 398 pages
...God, and to which tliese seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — • " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adapted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1856 - 266 pages
...leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon...with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior ?;>here, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, Aa the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with...abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eve; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave... | |
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