Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern... Poetical Pen-pictures of the War: Selected from Our Union Poets - Page 66by John Henry Hayward - 1864 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1902 - 642 pages
...the key to its making : mankind is not going back but forward, and what has been shall be. For — 1 Not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...the light ; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly 1 But westward, look, the land is bright ! ' AKT. X. — Recueil des Traites et Conventions conclus... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1880 - 174 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, thro' creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. 21 IDEM LATINE. Ne timide hos questus ' Nil prosunt,' finge, ' labores ; Vanam... | |
| 1852 - 590 pages
...no tedious inch to gain, Far back thro' creek and inlets making Comes, silent flooding in, the main. And not by Eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slowly, how slowly, And Westward, look, the land is bright ! BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS.— CHAP. II. WE take... | |
| American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. " And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward look, the land Is bright.'' There is no weakness in his longer poems. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, which was the first of these... | |
| John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If ^hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed,...But Westward, look the land is bright. A NATION'S PEAYEE. FIRST NATIONAL CELEBRATION DURING THE WAR. JULY 4TH, '61. GOD of our fathers, now extend Thy... | |
| Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks, and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 8 & 6>s P- M- WHITHER. 's KTorfts foliate Mm. WE shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming... | |
| Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH dough. CLXXVL THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. E more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone... | |
| R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH CLOUGH. SYMBOLS OF VICTORY. YELLOW leaves on the ash-tree, Soft glory in the air, And the streaming... | |
| Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...creeks, and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 392 8 & 6's PM WHITTIER. {Han's Kforfts tolloto ifni. WE shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the... | |
| 1878 - 680 pages
...painful inch to gain. Far back, through creeksand inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.' One thing as regards his belief is certain, and that is that, if he can be said to have belonged to... | |
| |