Bursts up in flame; the war of tongue and pen Learns with what deadly purpose it was fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men... Educational Aims and Civic Needs - Page 137by James Hutchins Baker - 1913 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: And cries reproachful: ' Was it, then, my praise,...thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate ! ' Life may be... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...it was " And, helpless ш the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: ¿And cries reproachful: ' Was it, then, my praise,...myself was loved ? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thru the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius,... | |
| CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed 130 Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries...then, my praise, And not myself was loved ? Prove now I claim of thee the promise of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men: And cries reproachful: ' Was it, then, my praise, And not myself was loved ? Prove new thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phra».... | |
| 1906 - 434 pages
...Tire events which the day commemorates are a great object lesson of the truth expressed by the poet : "Some day the soft ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth ; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate," Memorial Day... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth ; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate !" Life may be... | |
| Edward Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 558 pages
...elder Lowell thus told of the call as it came in those days to the best young men in the North : — " Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth, I claim of thee the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase ; The victim of thy genius, not its mate.' " From the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 330 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth ; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate !" Life may be... | |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1908 - 748 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate!" Life may be given... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 214 pages
...fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us...thy truth ; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate I " Life may be... | |
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