 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3601863Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. BEAD IX MUSIC HAT.T., jANUAItY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. BOSTON IIYMN. 175 Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. EEAD IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with Same. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - Congregational churches - 1883 - 332 pages
...of history. The history of our own land is written in a single verse by one of our poets : The voice of the Lord by night To the watching pilgrims came,...by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. Whatever may be done by the great movements of armies and nations, the moving force underneath these... | |
 | 1883 - 410 pages
...contemplated makes relatively insignificant the well-condemned efforts of the Invinciblea and Dyuamitists. God said, " I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more Up to mine ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. " Think ye I made this ball A field for havoc... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...for all his faith could see, I would not the good bishop be. BOSTON HYMN. As they sat by the seaside, THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1884 - 454 pages
...England have seen the following lines from Emerson ; and yet what a lesson is contained in them ! ' God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Lo ! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the sculptor uncovers the statue When... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Iran - 1884 - 842 pages
...inquisition the cause of the helpless and oppressed. It seemed that in the tongue and sword of this Prophet "God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." It abolished privilege of sex in matters of religious function. It set aside primogeniture. It denounced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Iran - 1884 - 842 pages
...inquisition the cause of the helpless and oppressed. It seemed that in the tongue and sword of this Prophet "God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." It abolished privilege of sex in matters of religious function. It set aside primogeniture. It denounced... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...bivouac. W. GORDON MACCABE. BOSTON HYMN. [Read at the Emancipation Meeting in Boston^ January 1. 1863.] THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor ? My angel, — his name... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 362 pages
...bivouac. W. GORDON MACCABE. BOSTON HYMN. [Read at the Emancipation Meeting in Boston, January 1, 1863.] THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor ? My angel, — his name... | |
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