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" Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come when his task of fame is wrought, Come with her laurel-leaf... "
The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine - Page 73
edited by - 1825
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of...in a foreign land; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese. When the land wind, from woods of...
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The Rival Collection of Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools, Colleges ...

1872 - 514 pages
...Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome...
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

1872 - 710 pages
...; Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought ; Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's stare to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign lnnd ; Thy summons...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 882 pages
...earthquake's shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, und dance, and wine; And thou art terrible; the tear,...To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome...
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How to read well in public and private, with readings from the best poets

How - 1873 - 222 pages
...bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear, • Of agony, arc thine. But to the hero, when his sword Hath won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like...to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand * Pes'-ti-lmce, very deadly and contagious epidemic. From the Latin pestis, a plague or infectious...
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American poems, selected and ed. by W.M. Rossetti

American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of...in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of...
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The model elocutionist, by A. Comstock and J.A. Mair

Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...sunken eye's unearthly lighi | To him is welcome as the sighi | Of sky, and stars to prison'd men, : | 3 Thy grasp is welcome as the hand | Of brother in a foreign land' ; | Thy summons, welcome as the cry | That told the Indian Isles' were nigh | To the world-seeking Genoese, | When the land-wind, | from...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best Monor Poems ...

1876 - 508 pages
...Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of...in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind from woods of...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...crowning hour, • — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight 524 525 Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of...
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections ...

1876 - 734 pages
...sunken eye's unvarllilr light, To him ia welcome as tlie sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men ; Tliy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Tiuiinn isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods...
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