THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the... Southern Review - Стр. 4461831Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - Страниц: 386
...in such as thee : A shoot of that old vine that made The nations silent in its shade. THE PAST. THOD unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy...us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth,, filide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - Страниц: 512
...bells— Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Edgar Poe. TO THE PAST.1 THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. (1) The striking conception embodied in this poem is sustained with great force and beauty— if it... | |
| 1859 - Страниц: 300
...humble ashes lie, Yet God has marked and sealed the spot, To call its inmate to the sky. BRYANT. anb THOU unrelenting past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to... | |
| 1859 - Страниц: 300
...ashes lie, Yet God has marked and sealed the spot, To call its inmate to the sky. BRYANT. (215) anb THOU unrelenting past ! Strong are the barriers round...And fetters sure and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathiug reign. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - Страниц: 272
...felt its weight, THE PAST. 1 . And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. THOU unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - Страниц: 796
...armory That minister'd to thee is open'd still. THE PAST. Thou uurelenting Past! Strong are the barricrs round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy uubreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1862 - Страниц: 276
...thy spirit felt its weight, THE PAST. And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, Childhood, with all its mirth. Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life... | |
| John Cumming - 1863 - Страниц: 340
...of Greece or Rome. His hymn " To the Past " is equal to anything that Longfellow ever wrote :— " Thou unrelenting Past, Strong are the barriers round...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. " Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends—the good, the kindYielded to thee with... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - Страниц: 254
...of the past ! but in the hands of Bryant what a majestic entity it becomes in that poem beginning : Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. What a splendid ideality is in this poem realized ! What multitudinous forms are bodied forth ! It... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Страниц: 798
...fill Heaven's mighty roll ; the glorious armory That minister'd to thee is open'd still. THE PAST. Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round...gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shallow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground,... | |
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