 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...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.' 5. ' We walked with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...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 two poets became speedily familiar and almost inseparable. They... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...new planet swims into his ken, Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacioc — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien, ' One. on us,' observed David Digges, ' ought to go and tell... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...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. Sonnet ri. CHARLES WOLFE. 1791-1823. Not a drum was heard, not a... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...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. 7. Keats. CCXVII. BLEST BE THY LOVE. LEST be Thy love, dear Lord,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 722 pages
...skies, : When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Gortes when with eagle eyes He stared * at the Pacific — and all his men • Looked at each other with a wild surmise — s. Silent, upon a peak in Darien. * " Stared " has been thought by some too violent, but it is... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1867 - 456 pages
...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." Originality in man, then, is not the power of making a communication... | |
 | 708 pages
...— and all hts men Look'd at each other wtth a wild surmise — Stlent, upon a peak of Dartcn.' ' " And all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise," ' he repeated, ' " silent upon a peak of Darien." The grandest thing ever done. They are standing there... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...to the amplest reach of prospect, lay." Or, ..." Like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien." And if one single word of ours could, amidst the utilitarian predilections... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortc2 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. Sonnet xi. CHARLES WOLFE. 1791-1823. NOT a drum was heard, not a... | |
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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. 
