 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...Perfect the cup as planned ! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same! THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us ; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat, — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface 1 For they appeal from tyranny to God. LORD BYRON. The Lost Leader. JUST for a handful of silver he left us ; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat, — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...counsellors ; what counsel they ? (Chorus) "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" THE LOST LEADER. i. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud 1... | |
 | 1879 - 556 pages
...he fluttered the leaf back almost to the' beginning of the volume and began to read abruptly — ' Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...bereft us, lost all the others she lets us devote ; " The scorn in his voice, while he was reading the first verse, and a yearning pathos that crept... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1879 - 384 pages
...then he fluttered the leaf back almost to the beginning of the volume and began to read abruptly : Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Pound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. The scorn... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 562 pages
...then he fluttered the leaf back almost to the beginning of the volume and began to read abruptly — " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coatFound the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; " The scorn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...was dead ! LONGFELLOW. THE LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which...lets us devote. They, with the gold to give, doled 224 225 So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...handful of silver he leu us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which fortunt bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. They, with the gold to give, doled 224 225 So much was theirs who so little allowed. How all our copper had gone fo"r his service ! Rags... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Jon» GKEEM.EÍF WHITTIKB. THE LOST LEADER. JCST for a handful of silver he left us ; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which...the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was their's who so little allow'd. How all our copper had gone for his service .' Rags — were they purple,... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - Volunteers - 1881 - 418 pages
...DOUBLE ACROSTIC. MY first demands my second ; yet without My first my second would be dull, I doubt. 1. 'Just for a handful of silver he left us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.' 2. ' Kneel down, my squire ; ' The blow fell light. ' Rise up, Sir John... | |
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LOST LEADER Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs... 
