 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he had floated there, without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up ! Instinctively I bent my bow ; yet wheeled he, heeding not The death that threatened him! I could not shoot! T was liberty! I turned my... | |
 | William T. Ross - Diction - 1890 - 552 pages
...motionless upon the air. As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I...measuring the ample range beneath And round about ; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot — 'Twas liberty ! —... | |
 | John Ulrich Ransom - German language - 1894 - 172 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, F By1 the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow : yet kept he rounding still His airy-circle, 2 as in the delight Of measuring the ample range beneath And round about ; absorbed,3... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he had floated there, without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up! Instinctively I bent my bow; yet wheeled he, heeding not The death that threatened him! I could not shoot! 'Twas liberty! I turned my... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1900 - 596 pages
...•with them, and raising them pleasantly above the prosaic level of common life." FROM "WILLIAM TELL." Scaling yonder peak, I saw an eagle wheeling near...measuring the ample range beneath And round about; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not snoot 'Twas Liberty ! I turned my... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - Oratory - 1900 - 472 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up ! Instinctively I bent my bow ; yet wheeled he, heeding not The death that threatened him ! I could not shoot I 'Twas liberty ! I turned... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there, without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet wheeled he, heeding not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot. 'Twas liberty! I turned my... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1902 - 592 pages
...without their aid, I5y the sole act of his unlorded will, Tliat buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively 1 bent my bow : yet kept he rounding still His airy...measuring the ample range beneath And round about; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not snoot; 'Twas Liberty ! I turned... | |
 | Patriotic poetry - 1908 - 228 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I...measuring the ample range beneath And round about ; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot — THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE.... | |
 | Bridget Ellen Burke - Art and literature - 1909 - 264 pages
...motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up! Instinctively I bent my bow; yet wheeled he, heeding not The death that threatened him: I could not shoot! 'Twas liberty ! I turned... | |
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O'er the abyss. His broad expanded wings Lay calm and motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept he rounding still His airy... 
