...on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake or margin of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast The desert and illimitable...

...merit. We fully recognize the poet in Thou'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form. , moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved...cannot be completed at one sitting. We may contin The Forest Hymn consists of about a hundred and twenty blank Pentameters, of whose great rhythmical...

...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way! (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 — (1. 13-14) 27 He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In...

...to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to...

...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink 10 Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — 15 The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned,...

...Wherever it may be, "Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong" because "There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through...

...the sea"(Ps 139:9). In response to the wonder of migration, William Cullen Bryant penned the words "There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast" ("To a Waterfowl"). The Lord asks Job, "Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom?" (Job 39:26). For Jeremiah...

...natural theology. Oak Park High School required Hemingway to memorize both Bryant's "Ode to a Waterfowl" ("There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" [26]) and "Thanatopsis" ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from...

...to do thee wrong As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to...

...approaching bad weather, these lines from William Cullen Bryant's poem, "To a Waterfowl," came to mind: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and the illimitable air— Lone, wandering, but not lost. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the...