Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven... The Authentic Letters of Columbus - Page 3by Christopher Columbus - 1894 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 480 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day... | |
| James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...held it at too cheap a rate, For in our likeness still wo shape our fato; A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulncss with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day;... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars 431 To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars' To claim...heaven; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly duluess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day;... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 294 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its...; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Our earthly duluess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day;... | |
| James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its...hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that doth leaven Oar earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 452 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; Our earthly duliiess with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of A seed of sunshine that doth leaven 25 heaven; Our earthly duliiess with the beams of stars, And glorify... | |
| |