 And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall...  The school book of poetry, ed. by W.C. Bennett - Pàgina 21editat per - 1870 - 192 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pàgines
...rock Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould....not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone,—nor coulust thou wish Couch more magnificent Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pàgines
...sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his root* abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal...resting-place. Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst tbou wish Couch more magnificent Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pàgines
...the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. *° I. The title means a meditation on death (Thanatos, in Greek); it was chosen by the editors of... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 pàgines
...the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. True, shortly after writing the poem, Bryant emphasized in his subsequent verse the Unitarian conception... | |
 | Herrlee Glessner Creel - 1982 - 200 pàgines
...the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. And the conclusion : So live, that when thy summons cornes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pàgines
...the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall...Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pàgines
...rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak 30 Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould....With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, 35 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 pàgines
...dropped before the reader really grasps how little consolation it is, after all, to be told that he will "lie down / With patriarchs of the infant world -.../ The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good. ..." Indeed, the whole notion of the vocation of poetry as primarily one of consolation comes out of... | |
 | Dudley C. Gould - 1999 - 402 pàgines
...eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past. - William Cullan Bryant. The word 'soul,' given lip service only for two millennia by Christian whites,... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pàgines
...the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold. Four years later, when Bryant had moved to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to start his own legal... | |
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