 Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that can leaven...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 385by James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 422 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 518 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. v. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...some more noble permanence ; A light across the sea, _ Which haunts tho soul and will not let it be, Still glimmering from tho heights of undcgencrato years.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...sea, Which haunts the soul and will not let it be, ''ill glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. V. Whither leads the path To ampler fates... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...some more noble permanence ; A light across the sea, Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Oar earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads? To reap an aftermath Of youth's vainglorious weeds, But up the steep, amid the wrath And shock of deadly... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 294 pages
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly duluess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. V. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. v. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...light from fountains elder than the Day; A conscience inore divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears, A vexing, forward-reaching sense Of some more... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our elay With light from fountains elder than the Day ; A conscience...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. v. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...claim its birtbright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of suushinethat doth leaven Our eartbly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountaius elder than the Day ; A couscience more divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears,... | |
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