 | 1879 - 1042 str.
...the Past, are lyrics showing that his sympathies were deep and true. How pathetic are these lines : i Childhood with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age,...man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions and are bound. ' Thon hast my better years, Thon hast my earlier friends—the good, the kind ; Yielded... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1828 - 384 str.
...barriers round thy dark domain ; And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness...with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us towards the ground — And last — man's Life on earth Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.... | |
 | 1832 - 542 str.
...barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreatliiug reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness...Man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good — the kind, Yielded... | |
 | Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 str.
...barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness...Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. " Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good — the kind, Yielded... | |
 | 1832 - 540 str.
...Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sulleuness and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep within...Man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good — the kind, Yielded... | |
 | 1832 - 868 str.
...barriers round thy dark domain And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Cbildhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age.that draws us to the ground And last, man's life... | |
 | 1832 - 534 str.
...Hold all that enter tby unbreathing reign. Far in tby realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sulleimess and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep within the shadow of tby womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last,... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 64 str.
...strains of one of the poets of our own land :* Far in thy realms withdrawn Old empires sit in sullermess and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown. To thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered,... | |
 | 1837 - 408 str.
...thy dark domain, And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in tby realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and...man's life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions and are bound. " Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good, the kind, Yielded... | |
 | 1837 - 830 str.
...a poem of fourteen quatrains — three feet and four alternately. In the second quatrain, the lines And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb are, to us, disagreeable. Such images are common, but at best, repulsive. In the present case there... | |
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THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain. And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the... 
