 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took ofF the gyves, A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...O FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets ' dream, A fair young girl, with light ' and delicate limbs, 15 And wavy tresses | gushing from the cap ' With which...man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand II Grasps the broad shield, and one | the sword ; thy brow, 20 Glorious in beauty | though it be, is... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...bolts, and ' with his lightnings ' smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. With which the Roman master ' crowned his slave |...man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand II Grasps the broad shield, and one | the sword; thy brow, 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap \Vith which the Roman master crown'd his slave, "When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...genius, has finely impersonated Freedom in these magnificent lines — 0 FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of liberty. Oh FREEDOM ! thou art not; as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate...Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 840 LATER POEMS. Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 pages
...FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wary tresses, gushing from the cap With which the Roman...gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou 5 one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 pages
...light and delicate limbs, And wary tresses, gushing from the cap With which the Roman master cruwned his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to (he teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, Glorious... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...of, when he wrote, in one of the most glorious of his poems, — "Oh, Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair, yoUng girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy trcssesI"f Why, it "isn't anything else!" if we may judge by the general wpect of m«*t of oar companies,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FBKEDIIM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap Wi;h which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took off the gyvee. A bearded man, Arm'd to... | |
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FREEDOM ! thou art not; as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. 
