 Nor mine the seer-like power to show The secrets of the heart and mind ; To drop the plummet-line below Our common world of joy and woe, A more intense despair or brighter hope to find.  The North American Review - Side 39redigert av - 1854Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 714 sider
...and truthful " Proem," (the only preface to this volume,) " • * * here at least an earnest.sense Of human right and weal is shown ; A hate of tyranny...vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own." In noticing this collection of his poems, Bryant, whose taste and judgment no one will presume to question,... | |
 | 1849 - 612 sider
...brighter hopo to find. * Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human ri^ht anil weal is shown; A hnte of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own, 1 Oh, Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty MILTON'S girt divine, Nor MARVEL'S wit and graceful flong,... | |
 | 1849 - 638 sider
...plummet line below Our common world of joy and woe, A more intense despair or brighter hopo to find. Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and weal is shown ; Л hite of tyranny intense, And nearly in its vehemence, Али my brother's pain and sorrow were... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 sider
...plummet-line below Our common world of joy and woe, A more intense despair or brighter hope to find. Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right...vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. Oh Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift diviUe, Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 sider
...her common forms with unanointed eyes. " Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and wrong is shown ; A hate of tyranny intense, And hearty in...vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own." Whittier is one of the few real men in Ihr world who do their duty, or what they consider duty, regardless... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 sider
...those who read them now, with but a faint idea of the circumstances under which they were written, they stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet. An antiAbolition...does not lack his multitude of friendly critics, who advise him to concentrate his efforts upon some great work, instead of dissipating his energy upon... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 sider
...of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strifS, are here. " Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded...does not lack his multitude of friendly critics, who advise him to concentrate his efforts upon some great work, instead of dissipating his energy upon... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 1088 sider
...fountains of mercy unsealed and unchoked, there is still some regard for divine laws. " That there at least an earnest sense, Of human right and weal...tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence, As if a brother's pain or sorrow were one's own." Yes, the farmer's fireside is a school of freedom. The... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 1130 sider
...still some regard for divine laws. " That there at leait an earnest sense, Of human right and weal it shown; A hate of tyranny intense, And hearty in its vehemence. As if a brother's pain or sorrow were one'i own." Yes, the farmer's fireside is a school of freedom. The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 436 sider
...plummet-line below Our common world of joy and woe, A more intense despair or brighter hope to find. Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right...vehemence, As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own. Oh Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song, Still... | |
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