 | John Benjamin Wisely, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold - English language - 1906 - 300 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. People do many things to help us remember brave men. They did something... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown - Hymn writers - 1906 - 752 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. This does not appear in the hymnals and owns no special tune. Its niche of honor is in the temple... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1906 - 324 pages
...being asked, Whence is the flower? The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And time the ruined bridge has swept Down...nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. THE HAUNTED MIND. WHAT a singular moment is the first one, when you have... | |
 | Josephine Latham Swayne - Concord (Mass.) - 1906 - 438 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee." FRANK EDWIN ELWELL. Frank Edwin Elwell was born in Concord, Mass., June 15, 1858. Left an orphan... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...breeze unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And f«red the shot heard round the world. / On this green bank, by this soft stream, / We set...Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to them and thee. / RW Emerson. 22 RALPH WALDO EMERSON "Behavior." Autograph manuscript unsigned [Concord, с.... | |
 | George Monteiro - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 196 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.10 "Not even Thermopylae has been celebrated better," concludes Frost, than by this "poem on stone."11... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth, AIF At the end of Crete he took to... | |
 | Amy L. Cohn - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1993 - 434 pages
...fired the shot heard 'round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Molly Bang BRIDGING THE GAP Once the Revolutionary War was won, it was off to the west to settle... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. BRAHMA If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well... | |
 | William John Bennett - American letters - 1997 - 440 pages
...fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the conqueror silent sleeps. And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down...Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Israel Putnam at Bunker Hill SHORTLY BEFORE the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, Abigail... | |
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BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined... 
