 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 582 pàgines
...tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. •« O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine 1 AMESBUKY, lith mo., 1S47. NARRlA'lPVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS THE ThU poem was suggested 'by JJi") .acconnt... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 pàgines
...of tyranny intense. And In-arty in its vehemence, AB if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. О Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...divine, Nor Marvell's wit and graceful song, Still with n love as deep and strong As theirs. I lay, like them, my best gifts ou thy shrine ! NARRATIVE AND... | |
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 202 pàgines
...someone has said, "From 1832 to 18(55 his harp of liberty was never hung up." Whittier himself sings : '- O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still with a love as deep and strong As theirs, I lay, like th m, my... | |
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 204 pàgines
...Whittier himself sings : " O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still with a love as deep and strong AH theirs, I lay, like tlum, my best gifts on thy shrine! " Besides writing poems for the- cause, he... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - 1897 - 392 pàgines
...From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. — Holland. 88. O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still with a love as deep and strong As theirs, I lay, like them, my... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1898 - 296 pàgines
...of Cape Ann.") The " Proem," in particular, marks this devotion of Whittier's life to a moral cause: "O Freedom! If to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine! " And certainly, the Quaker poet of New England had little leisure to polish most of these early offerings... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 pàgines
...of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. Oh Freedom! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine ! If this perhaps too modestly emphasizes the limitations and fails to recognize the artistic excellence... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pàgines
...hate of tyranny intense And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine ! JOHN GREENLEAP WHITTIKR. "THE SUNRISE NEVER FAILED US YET." WPON the sadness of the sea The sunset... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pàgines
...of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain aud sorrow were my own. О Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine 1 THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE GONE, gone, —... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pàgines
...intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. О Freedom I if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor...theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine ! THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE GONE, gone, —... | |
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Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and weal is shown ; A hate of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvell's wit... 
