Loves, hates, ambitions, and immortal fires, Are tossed pell-mell together in the grave. But stay ! no age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed... Harvard Memorial Biographies - Page xiedited by - 1866 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...o'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still wo shape our fato; A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day;... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...too cheapa rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate Ah, there is something here Unfathqmed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble...its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshinethat doth leaven Our eartbly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...fires, Are tossed pell-mell together in the grave. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynie's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day... | |
| 1876 - 294 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly duluess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day;... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven 25 Our earthly duliiess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Oar earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...age was e'er degenerate, Unless men held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by...Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To elaim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 pages
...cheap a rate, For in our likeness still we shape our fate. Ah, there is something here Unfathoraed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dubiesa with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day... | |
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