 FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 3421856Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...master crown'd his slave, When he took ofF the gyves, A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...beauty though it be, is scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has Inunch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...master crown'd his slave, "When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to the teeth, art thou : one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...beauty though it be, is scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 840 LATER POEMS. Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...master crowned his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou 5 one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...master cruwned his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to (he teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...master crowned his slave When he took off" the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
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