| David Staines - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 180 pages
...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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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 ages...hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and... | |
| Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...shalt lie down 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 in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; 40 The venerable... | |
| Grace Greylock Niles - Hoosic River Valley (Mass.-N.Y.) - 1997 - 620 pages
...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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre . . . By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About... | |
| Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...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 ages...hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,... | |
| Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 pages
...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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...Country lad. "Rude" means unsophisticated 2. Listen. rather than impolite. He is plowing the field with Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.' The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
| Alice O. Howell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 308 pages
...shah 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 ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable... | |
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