 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 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,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Abolitionists - 1853 - 124 pages
...until at last he reached the tomb. There, on the sullen shore, a mighty wreck, great Webster lies. 98 Where the known dignity, the stamp of awe, Which,...best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood I How different would have been the aspect of the North and the South ; of the press, the pulpit, the... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 340 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... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 328 pages
...Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, -Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb bo 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...him not — the Tempter hath A suare for all! And pityina tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted np and led his age Falls hack in night. Scorn ! would the angels langh to mark A bright sonl driven,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 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 - 1861 - 340 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall 1 Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night Scorn 1 would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...tempter hath A snare for all I And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall I WmrnEa. O dnmb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. WHITTIEE. Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 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, Ficnd-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...not,— the Tempter hath A entire 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... | |
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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. 
