Voices for Progress and Other Poems

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Houlston and Stoneman, 1852 - 140 páginas
 

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Página 3 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 45 - Love on, love on, though we may live to see The dear face whiter than its circling shroud, Though dark and dense the gloom of Death may be, Affection's glory yet shall pierce the cloud. The truest spell that Heaven can give to lure, The sweetest prospect Mercy can bestow, Is the blest thought that bids the soul be sure 'Twill meet above the things it loved below.
Página 118 - The gibbet has not fifteen years' life in it. If in 1860, fifteen years hence, there shall be a death punishment existing, if we shall still be in this world together, reproach me with being the falsest prophet, the veriest fool, that ever presumed to talk of the advancing spirit of the times.
Página 118 - If. in 1860, fifteen years hence, there he a death punishment existing, if we shall still be in this world together, reproach me with being the falsest prophet, the veriest fool, that ever presumed to talk of the advancing spirit of the times."— LOED NUGEXT. " We cordially agree with Lord Nugent, and undertake a share of the hazards to which he here exposes himself.

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