 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  The Poetical Works - Page 410by James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...read by one of the noblest and most sorely tried of men, a hero comparable with any of Plutarch's, "The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." Dear old Thackeray ! — as everybody that knew him intimately calls him, now he is gone. That is his... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." FRENCH AND GERMAN.* Bv far the cleverest and most entertaining book that we have to notice this month... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes : These all are gone, and,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. VII. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes : These all are gone, and,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." l I have still, however, several countries to speak of tonight, and must break off attempting them.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Such poetry as this makes one wish that somehow the customs of the republic could have devolved the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence conies ; of the dead, — Bright visions of glory that vanished...Company"1 Bryant William Cullen" William Cullen Bryant( JAMES RUSSBU. LOWBLU 1 -rr BURIAL OF LINCOLN. PEACE ! Let the long procession come, For hark ! —... | |
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