 Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground — So without shame, I spake : — " I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 1351877Full view - About this book
 | 1831
...streaming eyes, Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunny ground — So without shame I spoke — " I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...tears, my heart grew calm, and I was meek and bold. Yet nothing that ray tyrants knew or taught I cared to learn, but from that sacred store Wrought linked... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 pages
...streaming eyes, Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground. — So without shame I spake ; ' I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...tears ; my heart grew calm, and I was meek and bold. " And from that hour did I, with earnest thought, Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore ; Yet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...streaming eyes. Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunny ground-— So without shame, I spake: — « I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me tics Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...streaming eyes Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunn; ground — So without shame, I spake : — " I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or cheek." I then controll'd My tears, my heart grew calm, and I we» meek... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...my streaming eyes, Which poured the warm drops on the sunny groundSo without shame, I spake : — " I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize .Without reproach or check." I then controlled My tears, my heart grew calm, and I was meek... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...streaming eyes, Which poured the warm drops on the sunny ground — So without shame, I spake : — ".I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize • Without reproach or check." I then controlled My tears, my heart grew calm, and I was... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...my streaming eyes, Which pour*d their warm drops on the sunny ground,) So without shame I spake — I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. I then controll'd My tears ; my heart grew calm ; and I was meek... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...spot of the playground — generally alone — and where, he says, I formed these resolutions : To be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. Tyranny generally produces tyranny in common minds — not so... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 200 pages
...the playground — generally alone — and where, he says, I formed these resolutions : To be wire, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power,...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. Tyranny generally produces tyranny in common minds — not so... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...streaming eyes. Which poor'd their warm drops on the sunny ground ; So without shame I spoke — ' 1 will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.' I then controll'd My tears, my heart grew calm, and 1 was firm... | |
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