WHEN a deed is done for Freedom through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime... The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 67by James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1905 - 148 pages
...strength which it would give to slavery, and the South desired it for the same reason.] WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. 5 Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe, When the travail of the Ages... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1905 - 148 pages
...for the same reason.] WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Kims a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east...bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. 5 Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe, When the travail of the Ages... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - American poetry - 1905 - 730 pages
...heart, 178 Is more than time enough to find a world. 1S44. (1847.) ' THE PRESENT CRISIS8 WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, 1 Lowell's Poemi, Second Stria, dated 1848, was really published In 1847. s Written when the annexation... | |
| Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...ain'ta gift Thet tarries long in han's o' cowards! LOWELL, Biglow Papers, II, x, st. 21 When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. LOWELL, The Present Crisis, st. i Once we thought that holy Freedom Was a cursed and tainted thing;... | |
| Jenkin Lloyd Jones - Sermons, American - 1907 - 470 pages
...echoed the cry of the bondsman and proclaimed terror to the slave-holder in these lines : When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To that awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny... | |
| Albert Shaw - American literature - 1912 - 974 pages
...Britain is likely to be felt far and wide throughout the world. For, as Lowell sang, — When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west. Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe When the travail of the Ages wrings... | |
| Recitations - 1913 - 620 pages
...in 1844, and who brought a fervid anti-slavery temper as part of her marriage portion. When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching...bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of time. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along 'Round the earth's electric circle the swift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1908 - 186 pages
...in Time's shrunk veins make mirth, And labor meet delight half-way. THE PRESENT CRISIS WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching...the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime 5 Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. Through the walls of hut and palace... | |
| John Patrick McNichols - English language - 1908 - 280 pages
...earn it. 3. If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to men. " 4. When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching...of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west. 5. When honor dies, the man is dead. 6. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, * * * * Our hearts in glad... | |
| Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908 - 384 pages
...thrill of joy, prophetic, trembling on, from East to West; and the slave, where'er he cowers, will feel the soul within him climb to the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime of a century bursts, full blossomed, on the thorny stem of time." FRED J. CLARK. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE RACE PROBLEM. By... | |
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