 | 1833 - 508 σελίδες
...gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms reared to worship unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from...The wild beleaguerers broke — and one by one The strong holds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses. The brown vultures of the wood Flocked... | |
 | 1834 - 428 σελίδες
...save the piles of earth that bold their bones— Tbe platforms where they worshipped unknown god.— The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay ; till o'er the walls The wild beteagers broke— and one by one Tbe strong holds of Ihe plain were forced, and bfaped Wiih corpses.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 σελίδες
...gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods— The barriers which they builded from...one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses. The 'brown vultures of the wood Flocked to those vast uncovered sepulchres, And... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 σελίδες
...of other days 1 And did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And hurn with passion 1 All is gone ; All, save the piles of earth that hold...they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay." The Prairies. THE antiquity of " Monk Mound" is a circumstance which fails not to arrest the attention... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 σελίδες
...All, save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown god?, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay." The Prairies. THE antiquity of " Monk Mound" is a circumstance which fails not to arrest the attention... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 σελίδες
...gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods— The barriers which they builded from...one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses. The brown vultures of the wood Flocked to those vast uncovered sepulchres, And... | |
 | 1840 - 322 σελίδες
...gone' — All', save the piles of earth that hold their bones' — The platforms', reared to worship unknown gods' — The barriers', which they builded...keep the foe at bay', till o'er the walls The wild beleaguers broke, — and', one by one', The strong holds of the plain were forced', and heaped With... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 σελίδες
...and fieree, Ar:d the mound-builders vanish'd from the earth. The solitude of centuries untold 17 Has settled where they dwelt. The prairie-wolf Hunts in...and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were foreed, and heap'd With corpses. The brown vultures of the wood Flock'd to those vast, uncover'd sepulehres,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 σελίδες
...and fierce, And the mound-builders vanish'd from the earth. The solitude of centuries untold 17 Has settled where they dwelt. The prairie-wolf Hunts in...keep the foe at bay — till o'er the walls The wild beleogucrers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heap'd With corpses.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 σελίδες
...warlike and fierce, And the mound-builders vanish'd from the earth. The solitude of centuries untold Has settled where they dwelt. The prairie-wolf Hunts in...they builded from the soil TO keep the foe at bay — rtill o'er the walls The wild beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain... | |
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Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone... 
