His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest... Harvard Memorial Biographies - Page xivedited by - 1866 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 362 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind. Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bare, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring V again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our A seamark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, cloudy bars, level-lined, Fruitful... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-p-ak of mfnd, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A seamark...rather, genial, levellined, Fruitful and friendly for all humim kind. Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our clondy llars, A seamark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| 1876 - 294 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, levellined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, levellined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind. Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...unfaltering skill, come, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 pages
...is dust ; They could not choose but trust That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, levellined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
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