Only a few quotations have been identified. Some of the others may be
paraphrases.
"Call round her laughing eyes, in playful turns,
The glance that lightens, and the smile that burns."
Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802, "The Temple of Nature, or, The Origin of
Society"
But far beyond the pride of pomp, and power,
He lov'd the realms of nature to explore;
. . .
Timothy Dwight (president of Yale), 1752-1817, _The Conquest of
Canaan_. The _Cambridge History of English and American Literature_
says that the poem was "written by the time he was twenty-two, but
published when he was thirty-three and should have known better."
"musing, moping melancholy."
Arthur Murphy, _The Upholsterer or What News_ (1758), I:i: "musing,
moping, melancholy lover".
"The breeze's rustling wing was in the tree"
This unidentified line is also quoted in Mitchell's _Albert and
Eliza_.
the "stilly sound" of the low murmuring brook
Misprinted in 1851 as "slitty sound". Probably John Home, _Douglas_
(1756) IV:i.
"the confused noise of the warriors, and garments rolled in blood,"
1804 text has "warrior". Isaiah 9:5 (King James): For every battle
of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood.
until "the heavens were arrayed in blackness."
Isaiah 50:3: "I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering."
he cast a "longing, lingering look"
Thomas Gray (1716-71) _Elegy_.
"Blue trembling billows, topp'd with foam,"
The 1804 and 1811 texts have the correct form "tumbling billows".
_Anarchiad, a New England Poem_ (1786-87) with joint authors Joel
Barlow (1754-1812), David Humphreys (1752-1818), John Trumbull
(1750-1831) and Lemuel Hopkins (1750-1801).
"dingy scud"
Printed "dirgy scud" in all but the 1804 original. Possibly from
Charles Dibdin (b. 1745), "Ev'ry Inch a Sailor":
The wind blew hard, the sea ran high,
The dingy scud drove 'cross the sky ...
"... like Patience on a monument ..."
_Twelfth Night_ II:iv.
The "days of other years"
Possibly from "Ossian" (James MacPherson); the phrase is used often.
Here may the "widowed wild rose love to bloom!"
May be a paraphrase of another line in _The Conquest of Canaan_.
"Song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy ...."
Identified in the text as Edward Young, _Night Thoughts_, 1745. The
couplet on the title page is from the same source.
"To tie those bands which nought but death can sever."
May be "bonds" as in 1804 text. The phrase "that naught but death
can sever" occurs in Spenser, _Amoretti_ VI (1595).
"white as the southern clouds"
The phrase occurs in a translation of Salomon Gessner, as well as
in an 1817 text (Pennie, "The Royal Minstrel"). Both passages are
descriptions of sheep.
"a good old age"
The phrase occurs at least four times in the King James Bible.
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