 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 páginas
...The tittering world Dance to the grave. The busy brood of care Plod on, and each one chases as before His favorite phantom. Yet all these shall leave Their...employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee." The appearance of "Thanatopsis" and "Lines to a Waterfowl" in the early numbers of the "North American... | |
 | W. Noel Keyes - 2007 - 1234 páginas
...to Choose, FORDAM L. REV. 1873 (1996). So shall thou rest, and what ifthou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure?...employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. William Cullen Bryant Finally, the intelligence. Think of it this way: You are an old man. Stop allowing... | |
 | G. Richard Hoard - 2007 - 274 páginas
...likes of William Cullen Bryant, who at age seventeen wrote: And what if thou withdraw in silence from the living; and no friend Take note of thy departure?...employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. . .. I wondered if when Bryant wrote his poem in 1811 he was surrounded by silly and shallow girls... | |
 | Max Cavitch - 363 páginas
..."Thanatopsis," for example, Sedgwick's "country of enterprise" empties into a realm of somnolent transcendence: The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn...employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. (Poetical Works, 1:19) From the rural Massachusetts of his early verse to the western expanses of "The... | |
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His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength... 
