When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling.... Poems - Strona 207autor: William Cullen Bryant - 1855Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - Liczba stron: 280
...scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has Inunch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee; They...Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged thy chain ; yet while he deems thee bound, The links are... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - Liczba stron: 278
...strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thce ; 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 thy chain ; yet while he deems thec bound, The links are... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 444
...the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand II Grasps the broad shield, and one | the sword; thy brow, 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon deep, And his...and the prison walls | Fall outward ; terribly thou springeet forth, 8 As springs the flame ' above a burning pile, And shoutest to the nations, who return... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 444
...and ' with his lightnings ' smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon deep, And his...shivered, and the prison walls | Fall outward ; terribly t>"au springest forth, 8 * \ As springs the flame ' above a burning pile, .__ ^ And shoutest to the... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 440
...tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs II Are strong with struggling. Power I at thee has launched His bolts, and ' with his lightnings ' smitten thee...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged'... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - Liczba stron: 344
...scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ;...Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swait armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged thy chain ; yet, while he deems thee bound, The links... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - Liczba stron: 384
...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 ;...and the prison walls ' Fall outward ; terribly thou springes! forth, As springs the flame above a burning pile, And shoutest to the nations, who return... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - Liczba stron: 324
...wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with bis lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven." Bryant. WHEN the noblest woman in all France stood on the scaffold, just before her execution, she... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - Liczba stron: 326
...; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with hi$ lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven," Bryant. WHEN the noblest woman in all France stood on the scaffold, just before her execution, she... | |
| George Bancroft - 1852 - Liczba stron: 490
...tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs ? .j 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. Here in the "Western World, the ancient warrior, "twin-born with man," counselled by the ripened wisdom... | |
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