| 1865 - 654 pages
...solid earth, Kot forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength ho needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the "Nation...passion of an angry grief; Forgive me, if from present tilings I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on liis world-honored... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. VI. Such was he, our Martyr- Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...? Can we .wonder at the proud words of the poet when, speaking of President Lincoln, he says, — " Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honoured urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some... | |
| James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. VI. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...blemishes in the perfection of this noble passage. We quote it entire : Such was he, our Martyr Chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her...speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Sucli 2 wreath on his world-honored am. Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 0 ݁ wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and bum, And hang my wreath on his worldhonored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man... | |
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