There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel, Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this Commonweal, Till the vast Temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and... All the Year Round - Page 2061887Full view - About this book
| Protestant association - 1857 - 1224 pages
...down terrible rain : it may be our death— it may be his : let us take heed that it be not ours. " There is a poor blind Samson in this land, Shorn of...revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this common weal. Till the vast temple of our liberties A ihapcless mass of wreck and ruin lies." Againit... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 60 pages
...woe ; The poor, blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall ! There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn...liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. END. PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN, CAMBRIDGE. i. VOICES OF THE NIGHT. BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 6th... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...woe ; The poor, blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall ! There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn...liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. END. THE SPANISH STUDENT. SPANISH STUDENT. A PLAY, IN THREE ACTS. BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. What... | |
| Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...— The poor, blind slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall ! " There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn...liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies." APP TO-MORROW. FROM THE SPANISH OF LOPE DE VESA. LORD, what am I, that, with unceasing care, Thou didst... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1843 - 426 pages
...— The poor, blind slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall ! " There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn...liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies." APP TO-MORROW. . / FROM THE SPANISH OF LOPE DZ VEGA. LORD, what am I, that, with unceasing care, Thou... | |
| Books - 1843 - 574 pages
...voice of history, and filled with the forebodings of our oracular being ! There is a poor blind Sampson in this land, Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds...revel raise his hand And shake the pillars of this common weal, Till the vast temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. The... | |
| John Jay - African American Episcopalians - 1843 - 64 pages
...sounds the alarm, when the appointed watchers are sleeping on their posts, There is a poor blind Sampson in this land Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel, Who may, hi some grim revel raise hie hand And shake the pillars of this common weal, Till the vast Temple of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...woe ; The poor, blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall ! There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn...liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. n EARLIER POEMS. EARLIER POEMS.* AN APRIL DAY. WHEN the warm sun that brings Seed-time and harvest,... | |
| 1849 - 296 pages
...Longfellow forebodes of slavery in Ameriea, may no less be predieted of our own negleeted elasses : — " There is a poor blind Samson in this land. Shorn of...revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this eommonweal, Till the vast temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreek and rubbish lies-" But... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...Longfellow forebodes of slavery in Ameriea, may no less be predieted of our own negleeted elasses : — " There is a poor blind Samson in this land, Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel, \Vho may, in some grim revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this eommonweal, Till the vast... | |
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