 Tis the middle watch of a summer's night,— The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright; Naught is seen in the vault on high But the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Pagina 871863Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Colt S. S. - 1871 - 332 pagine
...poem—was laid among these hills, where " The Moon looSfc down on old Cro' Nest, She mellows the shade on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge, gray form...to throw, In a Silver Cone on the wave below!'' The name " Crow Nest" was at first applied to a deep, rocky depression which exists near the summit, but... | |
 | 1872 - 878 pagine
...rolls its milky hue, As a river of light, o'er the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cro' Nest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast ; And...huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below.1' The white schooners went through their ghostly parts in a way that would have shamed Wallack... | |
 | Wallace Bruce - 1872 - 102 pagine
...earth is dark, but the heavens are bright, The moon looks down on old Cro-nest, She mellows the shade on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw, In a silver cone, on the wave below." W« have now come through twenty miles of scenery nnequaled in the world, when we consider the points... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pagine
...which rolls its milky hue, j A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Croncst, She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast. And seems...gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below ; His sides are broken by spots of shade, By the walnut bough anil the cedar made, And through their... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pagine
...and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light, on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cronest ; She mellows the...form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below. His sides are broken by spots of shade, By the walnut bough and the cedar made, And through their clustering... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 296 pagine
...and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cronest : She mellows the...gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below ; His sides are broken by spots of shade By the walnut bough and the cedar made, And through their... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pagine
...the cloudless And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The tnoou looks down on old Cro'nest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And sei-ms his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below. His sides are broken by spots... | |
 | 1876 - 162 pagine
...that rolls its milky hue A river of light on the welken blue. The moon looks down on old Cro' nest, She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge grey form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below." This picture is sufficient to illustrate the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pagine
...which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old do'nest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw 1 na silver cone on the wave below. His sides are broken by spots of shade, By the walnut bough anil... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pagine
...and the cloud less sky, And the flood which rolls its milky Lue. A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cronest ; She mellows the...gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below ; His sides are broken by spots of shade, By the walnut bough and the cellar made, And through then-... | |
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