 Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb...  The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 106by James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 274 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy • Doth heaven with all its splendors...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... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 322 pages
...hopeless attempt at correction upon the old and unsound basis. THOUGHTS FROM LOWELL. "Not only around our infancy Doth Heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinai's clinch and know it not." "For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles wc buy with a whole... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1861 - 44 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie...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... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...illustrates his power in both respects : — ' ' Not only round our infancy Doth heaven with its splendours lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais...not. " Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fall'n and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint heart the mountain strives... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...and find, and not in great enterprises, but in lowly duties of love and faith. Not only around onr infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily,...cringe and plot, We Sinais climb, and know it not ; Отет our manhood bend the skies ; Against onr fallen and traitor lires The great winds utter... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendours lie ; * Daily, with souls that cringe arid plot, We Sinais climb and know it not ; Over our manhood...prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives ; * " Heaven lies about us in our infancy." — WORDSWORTH. Its arms outstretched, the druid wood "Waits... | |
 | College students - 1881 - 640 pages
...the higher world above and within. It is not that the better life is far removed from our grasp: — "Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not." There is a spirit which, infused into the barest drudgery, can "make that and the action fine;" but... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie...utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain Waits with its benedicite ; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral Hushes sent Alón" the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its .splendors lie...; With our faint hearts the mountain strives ; Its nmis outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its bénédicité; Ami to our age's drowsy blood •Still... | |
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