 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...  The Family Library of Poetry and Song - Pàgina 415editat per - 1880 - 1065 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1811 - 600 pàgines
...meditations. There is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the fallowing stan/as. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude 4 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But midst the crowd,... | |
 | 1812 - 560 pàgines
...A flashing pamj! of which the weary breast Would snll, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroliV. XXVI. But 'midst the... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pàgines
...meditations. There is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the following stanzas. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll V . But midst the crowd,... | |
 | 1812 - 528 pàgines
...thought is decked in the graces of unborrowed poetry, and appears in all the charms of originality. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. " But midst the crowd,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 510 pàgines
...phase ; But Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 pàgines
...phase; But Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the... | |
 | 1812 - 708 pàgines
...grace, they frequently possess. Let us take, for example, the two following stanzas on solitude. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foamiug falls to lean ;..,.. This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold „. Converse with nature's charms,... | |
 | 1813 - 818 pàgines
...each backward year : None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear ; A flashing...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 see her stores... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pàgines
...each backward year. None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear ; A flashing...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. XXV. But midst the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pàgines
...each backward year. None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear ; A flashing...and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. XXV. But midst the crowd,... | |
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