Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that can leaven... Modern Classics - Seite 741876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...some more noble permanence ; A light across the sea, _ Which haunts tho soul and will not let it be, Still glimmering from tho heights of undcgencrato years.... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshinethat doth leaven Our eartbly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...sea, Which haunts the soul and will not let it be, ''ill glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. V. Whither leads the path To ampler fates... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...some more noble permanence ; A light across the sea, Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 Seiten
...its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven 25 Our earthly duliiess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Oar earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads? To reap an aftermath Of youth's vainglorious weeds,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 Seiten
...that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...light from fountains elder than the Day; A conscience inore divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears, A vexing, forward-reaching sense Of some more... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 Seiten
...that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...light from fountains elder than the Day ; A conscience inore divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears, A vexing, forward-reaching sense Of some more... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 Seiten
...claim its birtbright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of suushinethat doth leaven Our eartbly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountaius elder than the Day ; A couscience more divine than we, A gladness fed with secret tears,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 Seiten
...claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With...glimmering from the heights of undegenerate years. Whither leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads, To reap an aftermath... | |
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