Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years... Readings in American Poetry - Página 15de Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 264 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Lewis Turco - 1986 - 198 páginas
...tribes That slumber in its bosom. Mother Nature seems distinctly unmatronly among such lines: ". . . the dead are there: / And millions in those solitudes,...laid them down / In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone, / So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw / In silence from the living, and... | |
| Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 páginas
...Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings— yet the dead are there: And...have laid them down In their last sleep— the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no... | |
| Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 páginas
...Barcan wilderness Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there,...years began, have laid them down In their last sleep. And so, in time, shall we. And if there be, indeed, a special nobility inherent in the human race —... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there:...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shall thou rest: and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...offers philosophical consolation in the face of death, the promise of brotherhood with the millions who "since first / The flight of years began, have laid them down / In their last sleep." The voice speaks in blank verse, without the "restraint . . . [of] rhyme," and is conversational and prosaic,... | |
| Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 páginas
...thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings—yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes,...of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the... | |
| Various - 1996 - 496 páginas
...woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: 55 And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no... | |
| Dudley C. Gould - 1999 - 402 páginas
...a rifle," and be known automatically as a fullgrown man, a real patriot, to enemy a dangerous man? And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shall thou rest; and what ifthou withdraw In silence from the living, and no... | |
| Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 páginas
...the wings Of morning — and the Barcan desert pierce, Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living — and... | |
| Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 páginas
...desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there,...have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest — and what if thou shalt fall Unheeded by the living — and... | |
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