 FREEDOM ! thou art not; as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one...  The American Catholic Quarterly Review - Page 596edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...My thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took ofF the gyves, A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...bolts, and ' with his lightnings ' smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. With which the Roman master ' crowned his slave |...man, Armed to 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...thoughts ! go up the long ' dim ! path of years, Back ' to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets ' dream, A fair young girl, with light ' and delicate limbs, 15 And wavy tresses | gushing from the cap ' With which the Roman master ' crowned his slave | When... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...My thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap \Vith which the Roman master crown'd his slave, "When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...efforts of his genius, has finely impersonated Freedom in these magnificent lines — 0 FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of liberty. Oh FREEDOM ! thou art not; as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 840 LATER POEMS. Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...the heart of the reader, and so be the savor of life to both." WILLIAM LEGGETT. " Oh FREEDOM ! them art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wary tresses, gushing from the cap With which the Roman master cruwned his slave, When he took off... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...the heart of the reader, and so be the savor of life to both." WILLIAM LEGGETT. " Oh FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wary tresses, gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave, When he took off... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - American literature - 1851 - 504 pages
...Bryant thinking of, when he wrote, in one of the most glorious of his poems, — "Oh, Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair, yoUng girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy trcssesI"f Why, it "isn't anything else!" if we may judge by the general wpect of m«*t of oar companies,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FBKEDIIM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap Wi;h which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took off the gyvee. A bearded man, Arm'd to... | |
| |
