For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean... Poems - Página 60por James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 184 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1876 - 564 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1875 - 336 páginas
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied ; For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden um." Do you not see that if a man have a new truth, it must be reformatory and so create an outcry... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History a golden urn. 'T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved... | |
| 1876 - 204 páginas
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied. For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; For in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...prophethearts hath burn'd Since the first man stood God-conquerM with his face to heaven upturn'd. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn. While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-coiiijuered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his li.iinl-. ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the rnirkling fagots burn, While the hooting mob... | |
| James De Mille - 1878 - 618 páginas
...Arabian Nights ; and, secondly, to the common saying, " Chateaux d'Espagne," ie, "castles in the air." " For humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered fragments into history's golden urn." — JR LOWELL, § 120. LITERARY ALLUSION. 2. Literary allusion... | |
| Joseph Osgood Barrett - 1878 - 412 páginas
...fraternity of the ' greatanchurched.' May his shadow lengthen, and his heresy strengthen ! Amen. "' Humanity sweeps onward ! where to-day the martyr stands,...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fragments burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered... | |
| 1885 - 650 páginas
...prophet hearts hath burned Sin :e th; first man stood, God-conquered, with his face to heaven upturned. "For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. "New occasions teach new duties; ,Time makes ancient good uncouth; They mu-.t upward still, and onward,... | |
| 1879 - 556 páginas
...prophet hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. " For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." JAMES MUDGK. ART. V.— JAGJI'WAN DA'S, THE HINDU REFORMER. are few missionaries in Northern India... | |
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