 Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 387edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
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...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific ; and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak In Darien." • Doubtless the highest ministry here belongs to religion. Christian... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when, with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of... | |
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...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. THE ODYSSEY. ANDREW LANG. [This sonnet Mr. Lang prefixes to the... | |
 | 1913 - 656 pages
...like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken : Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent upon a peak in Darien." Pastures Jiy J'ercy Walton Wliitaker THE Skeems ranch in Hungry... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me a golden pen,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me- a golden pen,... | |
 | Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1883 - 294 pages
...skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared atlhe Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." T is eminently proper that our views and descriptions of the natural... | |
 | Antonella Sarti - 1998 - 248 pages
...some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken; / Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the Pacific - and all his men / Looked at each other with a wild surmise - / Silent, upon a peak in Darien"; i3 and that seems to describe the moment of amazement very well.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with with m@ Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 5440 'To George Felton Mayhew' Sweet are the pleasures that to verse... | |
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