 Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee : They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven.  Old Portraits and Modern Sketches - Sivu 211tekijä(t) John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 304 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 sivua
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the...guillotine, as its patron saint, — with the exclamation, " O Liberty ! what crimes have been committed in thy name ! " It is with a feeling akin to that which... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 sivua
...; thy massive limbs are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched his bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee: they could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. 879 WARRE T ASTLY stoode Warre in glytteryng armes yclad, J — t with visage grym ; sterne-looked... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 sivua
...wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven ! 6. THE FOLLY OF PROCRASTINATION. To-morrow's action ! can that hoary wisdom, Borne down with years,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 sivua
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and'with his lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven ! 2. FOLLY OF PROCRASTINATION* To-morrow's action ! can that hoary wisdom, Borne down with years, still... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 sivua
...wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 sivua
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee. They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | 1872 - 660 sivua
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee : They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep ; And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | 1872 - 514 sivua
...massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightning smitten thee: They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 sivua
...wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven, Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 sivua
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven ; Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
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