 But let its humbled sons, instead, From sea to lake, A long lament, as for the dead, In sadness make. Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those...  Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 5365edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1895 - 604 pages
...sing it to us. Save one of a fallen hero, fallen, so he thought, from truth, "From those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead." Another, looking upon his country in a time of danger, bids men remember that "By the soul only, the... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 pages
...fallen angel's pride of thought Still strong in chains. " All else is gone ; from those great eyes The soul has fled ; When faith is lost, when honor...Walk backward with averted gaze And hide his shame." These extracts indicate the violent nature of the controversy over Mr. Webster's course. Certainly... | |
 | David James Burrell - Presbyterian Church - 1896 - 382 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled. When faith is lost, when honor...dead fame; Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame!* The affairs of the kingdom have now reached a crisis. The Philistines have crowded their... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor...dead fame: Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame! THE BAREFOOT BOY BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 1148 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong hi chains. All else is gone, from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor...Then pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame ; AValk backward, with averted ga/.e, And hide the shame ! In speaking of the origin of this poem Whittier... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1897 - 360 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone ; from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor...fame ; Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! JG WHITTIER. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT. COUTHWARD with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor...dead fame ; Walk backward with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. POET, ESSAYIST AND HUMORIST. |HJS distinguished author, known and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Literature - 1897 - 690 pages
...A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor...To his dead fame: Walk backward, with averted gaze. THE BAREFOOT BOY BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone ; from those great eyes The soul is fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man...fame : Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. THE CITY. THEY do neither plight nor wed In the city of the dead,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 660 pages
...he wore ! The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore ! All else is gone ; from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead! Again, how marvelously touching are his lines in contemplation of death ! When on my day of life the... | |
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