 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Poetical Works - Página 400por John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 522 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1898 - 682 páginas
...victory, Sui-h as the Present give?, aad cannot wait, Safe In himself as In a fate. So always firmly he: He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient.dreading naught of blame, New birth of our... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 páginas
...Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. ******* He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, 25 Till the wise years decide. ****** These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1899 - 310 páginas
...victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always firmly he : He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly- earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | 1899 - 638 páginas
...victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always firmly he : He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1899 - 686 páginas
...victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always firmly he : He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, 201 Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing... | |
 | 1899 - 880 páginas
...Cooke, and Sarah Orne Jewett. ELLEN A. VINTON. WASHINGTON, DC CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IMPERILLED " GREAT captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes. » — Lowell. THE silence has come in which but the echoes of the guns and drums of our great captains... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 páginas
...Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always firmly he: Io° He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...fame ; The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, I IO Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1900 - 508 páginas
...victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait. Safe in himself as in a fate. So always, firmly, he; He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide,...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes. These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest,... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 páginas
...singular forces better than questions can: and no man illustrates it better than Abraham Lincoln.— " Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our...brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praist not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict; but it rings... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1900 - 446 páginas
...culture — has sketched the martyr-president in lines now grown familiar : " Great «-jptai»«« with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for...kindly-earnest, brave, fore-seeing man. Sagacious, parient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the fi1st American." After the bloody... | |
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