T is sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still alive, But sweeter if we earn their bread, And in us they survive. Our life should feed the springs of fame With a perennial wave, As ocean feeds the babbling founts Which find in it their grave. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Page 191by Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1865 - 476 pages
...refrained to do, has a stimulus for all who long to keep themselves unspotted from the world. " 'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still alive...the babbling founts Which find in it their grave." NEW NATION1. Documents of the Loyal Publication Society. New York. 2. What ought to be done with the... | |
| 1868 - 416 pages
...ashamed to meet him when the death-angel speaks to us and says : " Friends, come up higher." " "Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still alive,...perennial wave, As ocean feeds the babbling founts That find in it their grave." LESSING'S NATHAN THE WISE. NATHAN THE WISE : A Dramatic Poem, by GOTTHOLD... | |
| 1865 - 456 pages
...refrained to do, has a stimulus for all who long to keep themselves unspotted from the world. " "Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still alive...the babbling founts Which find in it their grave." ART. VIII. — THE NEW NATION. 1. Documents of the Loyal Publication Society. New York. 2. What ought... | |
| 1869 - 580 pages
...leisure left for these, The acts that ye rehearse ? Is not eternity a lease For better deeds than verse ? 'T is sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still...wave, As ocean feeds the babbling founts Which find it in their grave. Ye skies, drop gently round my breast, And be my corselet blue ; Ye earth, receive... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...leisure left for these, The acts that ye rehearse ? la not eternity a lease For better deeds than verse ? T is sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still...drop gently round my breast, And be my corselet blue, Te earth, receive my lanoe in rest, My faithful charger yon ; Te stars, my spear-heads in the sky,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...leisure left for these, The acts that ye rehearse ? Is not eternity a lease For better deeds than verse ? 'T is sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still...the babbling founts Which find in it their grave. Ye skies drop gently round my breast, And be my corselet blue, Ye earth receive my lance in rest, My... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...leisure left for these, The acts that ye rehearse ? Is not eternity a lease For hetter deeds than verse ? T is sweet to hear of heroes dead. To know them still...of fame With a perennial wave, As ocean feeds the hahbling founts Which find in it their grave. Ye skies, drop gently round my breast, And he my corselet... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...leisure left for these, The acts that ye rehearse ? Is not eternity a lease For better deeds than verse ? T is sweet to hear of heroes dead, To know them still...alive, But sweeter if we earn their bread, And in as they survive. •^^ Our life should feed the springs of fame With a perennial wave, As ocean feeds... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...is a mutual hostility. Carlyte, Our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it Emerson. , bubbling founts / Which find in it their grave. / horeau. Our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1896 - 284 pages
...thee, Who art the love of love, the eternal light of light. RICHARD WATSON GILDER. THE BETTER WAY. "T* IS sweet to hear of heroes dead, -•- To know...if we earn their bread, And in us they survive. Our lives should feed the springs of fame With a perennial wave, As ocean feeds the babbling founts Which... | |
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