 Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee : They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven.  Old Portraits and Modern Sketches - Page 211by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has Inunch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...massive limbs II Are strong with struggling. Power I at thee has launched His bolts, and ' with his lightnings ' smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; — They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swait armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 390 pages
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...; thy massive limbs Are strong- with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 380 pages
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
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