| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...found tame and insufficient in comparison with the ultimate facts. EACH IN ALL. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee. from the hill.top looking down ; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, \Vhen like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| 1853 - 516 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
| 1853 - 560 pages
...defy thee ; O, Bweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stayest too long. SHAKSPEARE. EMERSON. p. LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down ; And the heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton... | |
| 1853 - 478 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. "On this green bank, by this soft stream, We see to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sous are gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 pages
...do defy thee ; O, sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stayest too long. gift LITTLE tHnks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down ; And the heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton... | |
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