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
| 1879 - 644 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned, Since the first man stood God-coni|uered with his face to heaven upturned. For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. They have rights who dare maintain them; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 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 s golden urn. 'T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle suives Of a legendary virtue carved... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 182 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. They have rights who dare maintain them; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first mau 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' graves,... | |
| Jennie Fowler Willing - 1880 - 254 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 for history's golden urn." A picture of Florence Nightingale represents her by the bedside of a dying... | |
| 1880 - 918 páginas
...light will yet worship the cause they opposed, and reverently honor the noble ones whom they slew. " For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; AVhile the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's... | |
| John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 páginas
...wilderness, if need be, alone : — " Far in front the Cross stands ready, And the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday In silent...return To glean up the scattered ashes Into History's sacred urn." Mr. Mundella has likewise a curious disposition to adorn his conversation with quite unnecessary... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 176 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. They have rights who dare maintain them ; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where today the martyr stands, Y 'Tie as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 980 páginas
...Wrong forever on the throne." "Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust." "For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands." But the whole poem is a Giant's-Causeway group of columnar verses. It is a pity to pry out specimens... | |
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