 Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime...  Maud, and Other Poems - Page 129by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1829 - 82 pages
...Englishman is low. IV. 1 Mourn, for to us he seems the last : Our sorrow draws but on the golden Past. О friends, our chief state-oracle is mute : Mourn for...Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of largest influence, Yet freest from ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Great in... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pages
...our chief State oracle is mute : Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, The. statesman- warrior, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of largest influence, Yet freest from ambition's crime, Our greatest, yet with least pretence, Great in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1852 - 32 pages
...Englishman is low. IV. Mourn, for to us he seems the last : Our sorrow draws but on the golden Past. 0 friends, our chief state-oracle is mute : Mourn for...Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of largest influence, Yet freest from ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Great in... | |
 | 1853 - 848 pages
...additional number of references to the soldier-life of the departed warrior. He now reminds us that No more in soldier fashion will he greet With lifted hand the gazer in the street ; — and in the apostrophe to the shade of Nelson, he adds to the allusions to the duke's victories... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...our chief state oracle is mute : Mourn for the man of long enduring blood, The statesman, warrior, moderate resolute, Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of largest influence, Yet free'st from ambition's crime, Our greatest, yet with least pretence, Great... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 pages
...crowd about it grow, And let the mournful martial music blow ; The last great Englishman is low. <L No more in soldier fashion will he greet With lifted hand the gazer in the street. 0 friends, our chief state-oracle is mute : Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, The statesman-warrior,... | |
 | 1859 - 334 pages
...thee fruit divine in heaven's immortal bowers." CHAPTER X. LEGISLATIVE WORK. Mourn for the statesman, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good...amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime ; Or, greatest yet, with least pretense, Rich in saving common sense ; And, as the greatest only are,... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 pages
...STATE JOURNAL, COLUMBUS. 1865. Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, • The patriot, statesman, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good....ambitious crime, Our greatest, yet with least pretence, Rich in saving common sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O voice from... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1865 - 436 pages
...heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame that shall stand when governments and nations fall. Moderate, resolute, Whole in himself) a common good....ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Rich in saving common-sense, And as the greatest only are, In bis simplicity sublime. Who never sold... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...when governments and nations fall. Moderate, resolute, Whole in himself; a common good. Mourn for tho man of amplest influence Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Rich in saving common-sense, And as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. Who never sold... | |
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