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" I've been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world ! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high ; To crowded halls, to court and street... "
Obiter Dicta ...: Milton. Pope. Johnson. Burke. The muse of history. Charles ... - Page 255
by Augustine Birrell - 1887
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...the ocean brine, Too long I am toss'd like the driven foam : But now, proud world, I 'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face ; To Grandeur...come, — Good-bye, proud world, I m going home. I go to seek my own hearth-stone Bossom'd in yon green hills alone ; A secret lodge in a pleasant land,...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...the ocean brine, Too long I am toss'd like the driven foam — But now, proud world, I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face ; To Grandeur...go, and those who come, — Good-bye, proud world, I'm going home. I go to seek my own hearth-stone Bosom'd in yon green hills alone ; A secret lodge...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...the ocean brine, Too long I am toss'd like the driven foam : But now, proud world, I 'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face ; To Grandeur...go, and those who come, — Good-bye, proud world, ITO going home. I go to seek my own hearth-stone Bossom'd in yon green hills alone ; A secret lodge...
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The Illustrated Book of Christian Ballads and Other Poems, Volume 6

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Ballads, English - 1844 - 188 pages
...on the ocean brine. Too long I am toss'd like the driven foam But now, proud world, I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face ; To Grandeur,...go, and those who come, — Good-bye, proud world, I'm going home. I go to seek my own hearth-stone Bosom'd in yon green hills alone ; A secret lodge...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...I'm going home ; Thou art not my friend ; I am not thine : Too long through weary crowds I roam :— Good-b'ye to flattery's fawning face ; To Grandeur...go, and those who come, — Good-b'ye, proud world, I'm going home. I go to seek my own hearth-stone Bosom'd in yon green hills alone; A secret lodge in...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...the ocean brine, Long I've been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world ! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with...who go, and those who come ; Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home. I am going to my own hearth-stone, Bosomed in yon green hills alone, — A secret...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...ocean brine, Long I've been tossed like the driven foam, But now, proud world, I'm going home. Good bye to Flattery's fawning face, To Grandeur, with his...hasting feet, To those who go, and those who come, Good bye, proud world, I'm going home. I'm going to my own hearth-stone Bosomed in yon green hills,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 30

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 pages
...; his ' Good Bye to the World,' for example, of which the first two verses will afford a specimen : •GoOD-bye to Flattery's fawning face, To Grandeur,...upstart Wealth's averted eye, To supple Office, low aud high ; To crowded hall», to court and street, To frozen beans and hasting feet; To those who go,...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 30

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 672 pages
...; his ' Gaud Bye to the World,' for example, of which the first two verses will afford a specimen : 'GooD-bye to Flattery's fawning face, To Grandeur, with his wise grimace ; To upstart Wealth'* averted eye, To supple Office, low anil high ; To crowded halls, to court nnd street, To frozen...
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The Burden of the Bell, and Other Lyrics

Thomas Westwood - 1850 - 242 pages
...shalt see How I'll bury it deep in that black pool with thee ! CITY-CRAFT, AND SOUL-CRAFT. " Good bye to Flattery's fawning face, To Grandeur with his wise grimace, To upstart Wealth's averted eye, Tu supple Office, low and high, Good bye, proud World, I'm going home." RALPH WALDO EMEKSOM. From the...
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