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" Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea; Not an ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry Of those Crises, God's stern winnowers, from whose feet earth's chaff... "
Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative - Page 208
by George Wharton James - 1916 - 291 pages
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 302 pages
...beautiful tall angels to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages, and the beacon-actions see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twix old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment hath passed by. Of those Crises, God's stern winnowers,...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 342 pages
...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaoonmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear in court or market for the low fore boding cry Of these Crises, God's stern winnowers, from whose feet earth's chaff must fly ; Never...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 340 pages
...wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk 2ontinent, jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear in court or market for the low fore boding cry Of those Crises, God's stern winnowers, from whose feet earth's chaff must fly ; Never...
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The Christian messenger, Volumes 7-8

1871 - 868 pages
...tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages, and the beacon moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...Oblivion's sea; Not an ear in court or market for the low forboding cry Of those Crises, God's stern winaowers, from whose feet earth's chaff must fly; Never...
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

1872 - 710 pages
...Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, just Jame» Buisell Lowell. 583. CBISIS, A Soul'«. There is a time, we know not when, A point we know not...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best ..., Volume 2

1876 - 564 pages
...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...seems the great Avenger ; history's pages but record Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems *nd the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments sec, stling of the morning gales ; A murmur, wafted from that glorious shore, Of streams that water banks pass'd by. — Lowell. 635. CRISIS. A Soul's THERE is a time, we know not when, A point, we know not...
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