Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with the passion of an angry grief : Forgive me if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honoured... The Chautauquan: a weekly newsmagazine - Page 5121892Full view - About this book
| 1865 - 654 pages
...solid earth, Kot forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength ho needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the "Nation...passion of an angry grief; Forgive me, if from present tilings I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on liis world-honored... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her...burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her...burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...? Can we .wonder at the proud words of the poet when, speaking of President Lincoln, he says, — " Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honoured urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Sucli 2 am. Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 488 pages
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and bum, And hang my wreath on his worldhonored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had l<;d, With ashes on her head, Wept with the passion of an...burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. ИОМЛ5 GRAY. 220 POEMS OF SORROW AND ADVERSITY. f POEMS OF SORROW lier head, Forgive me, if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had With ashes on her head, Wept with the passion of an angry led, grief: Forgive me, if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat And hang... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...solid earth. Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they sav, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her... | |
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