 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.  Littell's Living Age - Page 4481868Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...Proclamation was carried into effect, Emerson read, in his native city, his famous "Boston Hymn": — " The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they watched by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. " God said: ' I am tired of kings, I suffer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1890 - 382 pages
...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. BEAD IN MUSIC HALL, JANUAEY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with I hi mo. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 pages
...felicities not only unteachable, but undescribable. BOSTON HYMN. BEAD IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, 10 Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor ? My angel, — his name is... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 440 pages
...England have seen the following lines from Emerson; and yet what a lesson is contained in them i ' God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. I show Columbia, of the rocks Which dip their foot in the seas. And soar to the air-borne flocks Of... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 266 pages
...lifted his voice and spoke even to the humblest of the people of the intrinsic dignity of man : — God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear each morning brings The outrage of the poor. i Corresp. ii. 294. * Ibid. ii. 280. <» Ibid. ii. 82.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 274 pages
...lifted his voice and spoke even to the humblest of the people of the intrinsic dignity of man : — God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear each morning brings The outrage of the poor. Corresp. ii. 294. 2 Ibid. ii. 280. 3 /fa-rf. «. 82. I... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1892 - 56 pages
...those rapacious and wicked eyes, those cruel jaws." And it was of such times that Emerson wrote : " God said, ' I am tired of kings, — I suffer them no more ; Up to my ears the morning brings The outrage of the poor.' " I have thus depicted, in brief, the THE KENAIS-... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1893 - 582 pages
...RECORD OF THE DECADE— 1880-1890 494 A LOOK AHEAD 512 TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I THE REPUBLIO God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more;...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. And I will have never a noble, No lineage accounted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1893 - 592 pages
...RECORD OF THE DECADB— 1880-1890 494 A LOOK AHEAD 513 TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I THE REPUBLIC God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my car the morning brings The outrage of the poor. And I will have never a noble, Xo lineage accounted... | |
 | 1894 - 444 pages
..."Voluntaries," and his "Bostoi Hymn," are as genuinely Emersonian a? anything that he has written. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Lo ! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West; As the sculptor uncovers the statue When... | |
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