 Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk...  American Literature - Page 95by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1902 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art freedom's now, and fame's — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. ODE TO THE PASSIONS. WHEN Music, heavenly maid ! was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, —... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1851 - 252 pages
...gave thee birth, Will, by their pilgrim-circled hearth, Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's ; One of the few, the immortal names, That were not horn to die. BURNS. TO A ROSE, BROUGHT FROM NEAR ALLOWAY KIRK, IN AYRSHIRE, « THE AL'TUMX OF 1882.... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 638 pages
...tall, gentlemanly, and beautiful form of the great John £jbieski, the greatest of the Polish kings : " One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die." In another direction stands the monument of bishop Saltyk, in which the venerable prelate is represented... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...friendly voice, And add thy name, O Sun, to tell thee how .- . • I hate thy beams. — MILTON. 2. One of the few the immortal names That were not born to die.— HILLECK. METALEPSIS. § 642. METALEPSIS, from the Greek /ierdA-^tf, participation, is the continuation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's, — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die ! H. THE SEMINOLE'S DEFIANCE. — GW Patten. BLAZE, with your serried columns ! I will not bend the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...gave thee birth, Will, by their pilgrim-circled hearth, Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not bom to die. SAMUEL G. GOODRICH. SA.VCKL GUIS WOLD GOODRICH is a native of Ridgefield, on the western... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...stood for a century and a half, one of the most honored names of English and American history — " One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die." • Oldmixon, vol. ii. p. 708, quoted by Forster. -f Macaulay's Hist. vol. i. chap. v. , In Divmi's... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die ! THE FICKLENESS OF LOVE. An exquisite passage from MOOBE'S Lalla Booleh. ALAS ! — how light a cause... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1853 - 282 pages
...shall guard his rest, and the ocean sound his dirge," the world shall read on his monument, not only— One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die ; 23 but also that DANIEL WEBSTER lived and died in the Christian faith. The delineation which he gave... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...there is no prouder grave Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art Freedom's now and Fame's, — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. HALLECK. 57. On Wisdom. EVERY other quality besides is subordinate and inferior to wisdom, in the same... | |
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