 How long,' they say, 'how long, O cruel nation. Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upward, 0 gold-heaper, And your...  The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Complete: With a Memoir ... - Page 16by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1877Full view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...is dread to see ; For you think you see their angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deily. " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation !...you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 670 pages
...tenderly pathetic is this : — " How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you .'.ii'll-I. to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; 1'j'it the child's sob curseth deeper in... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...their look is dread to see ; For you think you see their angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity. " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel...you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...their look is dread to see, For you think you see their angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity ; — " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants, And your purple shews your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...see ; 22 VOL. vn. — MO. 14. For you think you see their angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity ; 'How long,' they say, 'how long, O cruel nation,...onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...you see their angels in their place*, With eyes meant for Deity. " How long," they say, "how long, О cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart ? Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation. And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...miseries of his " little children." How terribly powerful and yet how tenderly pathetic is this : — How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will...palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Out blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...terribly powerful and yet how tenderly pathetic is this : — ' " How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
 | John Rogers Bolles - Solitude and society - 1846 - 142 pages
...breast of infancy " How long (they say) how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand to move the world upon a child's heart — Stifle down with a mailed heel...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O, our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...their look is dread to see ; For you think you see their angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity. " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel...Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart ?— Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ?... | |
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