 Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 264edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1883 - 388 pages
...For the great work to set thy country free. New York, 1827. "Talisman," 1828. T THE PAST. / / x HOU unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and last, x / ,. /».,/ •*'"• Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn,... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1887 - 362 pages
...awkwardly potato toothache voodooism tyro jointure coward future iodine voyager outlawry utilize 2. Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. The Past. Bryant. 3. O thou eternal one ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. 1825. THE PAST. -*- Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,...And fetters, sure and fast. Hold all that enter thy unbreathiug reign. flPHOU unrelenting Pastl Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness... | |
 | Robert Eyton - 1889 - 508 pages
...seem to hold the best we can know, but it cannot keep them — " Thou unrelenting past, Strong are thy barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters sure and fast Hold all that enter thine enthralling reign. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends, the good, the kind,... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1890 - 552 pages
...Point every stop, mark every pause so strong. Their words, like stage processions, stalk along. 2. Thau unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Tht Past. Bryant. 3. O thou eternal one ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1895 - 294 pages
...he knoweth not.' The poet hath not often excelled Heeren. InstanceBryant on the same subject : — Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Mere rhyme often assists the memory, and, if nervous, it may better strike the understanding than prose.... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...grave is green; And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. 750 THE PAST THOU unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. THE PAST. Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. • Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Harriet Bright Curry - 1897 - 412 pages
...honourable citizenship in a united and prosperous Empire. JOHN BRIGHT. Ireland, House of Commons, 1865. THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back—yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...is pre-eminently his endowment but the tinge of melancholy in his treatment is always pleasing. |HOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy...and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep... | |
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