 | American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...gifts at best, of now and then — Wind-wavered copse-lights, daughters of the fen — The more we feel the high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. — James Kussell Lowell. T1?? Outlook Satuv&an Vol. 58 January 22,... | |
 | 1901 - 998 pages
...conserves his character, perfects his scholarship, and strengthens his health. The Record of a Long Life1 " The high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense In work done squarely and unwasted days.1' THIS quotation from Lowell might well have been written... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen. The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But ftnding amplest recompense For life's ungarlandcd expense In work done squarely and unwasted days.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1876 - 112 pages
...gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still,...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 295 For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain dcvoteclness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal...recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. r 295 For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Corporation law - 1879 - 584 pages
...earth we live, And weigh the various qualities of men, ******* The more we see the stern, high-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and...praise; But finding amplest recompense For life's ungurlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. For this we honor him." PREFACE. This... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still,...praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlandcd expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 288. The daughters of the fen, — will-o'-the-wisps.... | |
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The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 
