The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Illustrated with Steel ..., Volume 3 John Greenleaf Whittier Visualização completa - 1892 |
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altar angels Barbara Frietchie beneath blazon bless blood blow bondman's brave breaking breath brow calm chain Christian cloud crime crown curse dark dead death dream earth evil eyes faith Faneuil Hall fathers fear fetters fire flag Frederic Remington Free Soil party Freedom Freedom called Freedom's Frémont glory God's gone grave gray green Hall hand hate hath hear heard heart heaven hills holy hope human JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Joseph Sturge land Liberty light lips look Lord Massachusetts Moloch mountain night o'er pain pale fire peace Perugia poor praise prayer priest Rain-in-the-Face rice-swamp dank round scorn shadow shame shines slave slavery Slavery's song soul Southron stand stood storm strong sweet sword tears thee thine thou to-day toil tongue Toussaint L'Ouverture tread trod truth unto voice wall wave Where'er wild wind words wrong
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Página 233 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Página 25 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Página 247 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Página 322 - Whose eye-balls, through his horrid hair, Gleam on him, fierce and red ; And the rude oath and heartless jeer Fall ever on his loathing ear, And, or in wakefulness...
Página 315 - Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold, — "Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?
Página 290 - So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below.
Página 303 - Up ! — up ! — in nobler toil than ours No craftsmen bear a part: We make of Nature's giant powers The slaves of human Art. Lay rib to rib and beam to beam, And drive the treenails free ; Nor faithless joint nor yawning seam Shall tempt the searching sea...
Página 217 - The flesh may fail, the heart may faint, But who are we to make complaint, Or dare to plead, in times like these, The weakness of our love of ease ? Thy will be done...
Página 11 - ... fame ; That thou art striving but to. gain A long-enduring name; That thou hast nerved the Afric's hand And steeled the Afric's heart, To shake aloft his vengeful brand, And rend his chain apart. Have I not known thee well, and read Thy mighty purpose long ? And watched the trials which have made Thy human spirit strong ? And shall the slanderer's demon breath Avail with one like me, To dim the sunshine of my faith And earnest trust in thee...