 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 halaman
...4. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise,... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 halaman
...of the middle stanza Bryant pictures the state of the dead: Yet not to thine eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...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... | |
 | David Staines - 1986 - 180 halaman
...voice Mayhew's belief and the book's benign message about the process of man's life in time: . . . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...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 - 1988 - 356 halaman
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...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... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 halaman
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...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... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 halaman
...The oak 30 Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...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... | |
 | Grace Greylock Niles - 1997 - 620 halaman
...Thanatopsis with a measured strain similar to that of Irving: Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...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... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 halaman
...dropped before the reader really grasps how little consolation it is, after all, to be told that he will "lie down / With patriarchs of the infant world -.../ The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good. ..." Indeed, the whole notion of the vocation of poetry as primarily one of consolation comes out of... | |
 | Dudley C. Gould - 1999 - 402 halaman
...with all our buddies of one color, brave, in peace forever. Yet not to thine eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 halaman
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish...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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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. 
