 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1865 - 372 pages
...familiar fame, Doomed to exhaust the dregs of life in shame ! " Oh, what a warning was his fall I " To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach...forum, and the court ! Had he died after the treaty of 18 i2, how different would have been his fame ! Since the Revolution no American has had so noble an... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1865 - 682 pages
...familiar fame, Doomed to exhanst the dregs of lil'u in shame ! " Oh, what a warning was his fall I " To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach...he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls buck iu night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1865 - 372 pages
...in shame ! " Oh, what a warning was his fall ! " To dash corruption in her proud career, And tench her slaves that vice was born to fear." ' . . "Oh...When he who might Have lighted up and led his age i'alls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all ! And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...not— the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath. Befit his fall i Oh 1 dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven ! Let not the land, once proud of him, Insult... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath. Befit his fall! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven ! Let not the land, once proud of him, Insult... | |
 | American poetry - 1869 - 310 pages
...— the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night ! Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...— the Tempter hath A snare for all ! And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! 0, ! Scorn ! would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night. Scorn? Would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...— the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
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Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow. 
