 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1842 - 628 pages
...liberty. Oh FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poeta dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...be, is scarred II With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs II Are strong with struggling. Power I at thee has launched His bolts, and ' with his lightnings...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...liberty. Oh 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...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...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 ;...They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swait armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1847 - 390 pages
...liberty. Oh 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...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 840 LATER POEMS. Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...relief. " Oh 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...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...relief. " Oh FREEDOM I 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...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged... | |
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Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged thy chain... 
