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. Littell's Living Age - Page 4481868Full view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...good bishop be. BOSTON HYMN. K word of the T.,ord >>y night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they snt by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame....the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ve I made this ball A field of havoc, and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...yet, for nil his faith could see, I would not the good bishop be. BOSTON HYMN. THE word of the Ixird by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat...the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ve l made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. WILLIAM COWPER. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; IT]> to my car the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN Music HALL, JANUABY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them 110 more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. WILLIAM COWPER. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN MUSIC HALL. JANUARY I. 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I sufler them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this... | |
| William James Linton - African American songs - 1878 - 470 pages
...want thou canst outsleep ; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. BOSTON HYMN. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And fill'd their hearts with flame. God said, — I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...alone is Lord and God ! JOHN GKKKNLEAF WHi BOSTON HYMN. READ IN »1USIC HALL. JAN. I. 1863. Тик Dawn on our darkness, Held of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor Î My angel,... | |
| North American review - 1880 - 672 pages
...; and the poet has celebrated it in stanzas rough and impressive as Stonehenge. Here are a few : " God said, I am tired of Kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. " I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great ; Fishers and choppers and plowmen Shall constitute... | |
| Education - 1917 - 692 pages
...it, and Emerson wrote one for him, and gave one to Mrs. Stearns, who gave it to its present owner. "God said, 'I am tired of kings ! I suffer them no more; Up to my ears the morning brings The outrage of the poor. " 'Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and... | |
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...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863. HE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they eat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them... | |
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