 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 844 pages
...memory: who has ever more nobly described the coming of death to the hero than in this passage ? — " Come in her crowning hour, and then Thy sunken eye's...Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas." Carlyle complacently calls Walter Scott... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 506 pages
...Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of...in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry Which told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods... | |
 | Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...; Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood bought ; Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome... | |
 | 1827 - 500 pages
...millions yet to be. Come when his task of Fame is wrought — Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken...isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind from woods of palm. And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1827 - 76 pages
...yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken...welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh 14 MARCO BOZZARIS. To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods of palm, And orange... | |
 | 1827 - 496 pages
...task of Fame is wrought— Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken...To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 432 pages
...task of fame is wrought— Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men: Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land; Thy summons welcome as... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken...To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of a brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...and the finest portion of the poem is probably to be found in the verses we have quoted elsewhere — Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign...Genoese, When the land-wind from woods of palm And orange groves, and fields of balm Blew o'er the Haytian seas. The verses entitled Burns consist of... | |
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But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf... 
