 Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives ; Its arms outstretched, the...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 107by James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 274 pages
...splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not ; Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor...Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its bcnedicite ; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. ft Earth gets its price... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; Earth gets its price for what... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1861 - 44 pages
...splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not ; Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor...Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its henedicite ; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its price for... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, Earth... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...splendours lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb, and know it not : Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. How buoyant and jocund is the following passage on The Sweet Influences of Spring: Joy comes, grief,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...faint hearts the mountain strive*, Iti arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its bénédicité ; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its price for what Earth gires us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in ; The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives... | |
 | Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1868 - 360 pages
...its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. A WOED WITH YOU. THIS is a book of my life so far as I have lived ;— a life-drama! They who have... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that, cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not; Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea." VISION OF SIR LACNFAL. — JR Lowell. Soft Force. " Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...'Vision of Sir Launfal,' which the reader may contrast with the last quotation from Chaucer : — ' Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The...for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who conies and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold,... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - Great Britain - 1869 - 352 pages
...'Vision of Sir Launfal,' which the reader may contrast with the last quotation from Chaucer : — ' Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The...for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who conies and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold,... | |
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