...problem is solved ! This is doubtless an island, but a continent is near. Laud be to God !" CHAPTER VI. "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost." BRYANT. THE two or three hours that succeeded, were hours of an extraordinary and intense interest....

...pleasing hope, this fond desire, • This longing after immortality? Bryant says of the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. [23] He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way...

...indicated the pictorial quality, directly related to painting, which Bryant tried to achieve in this poem. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 10 Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care...

...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...

...way?" Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...