 And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh berries, and the choking pool Of the world's scorn, are the right mother-milk To the tough hearts that pioneer their kind, And break a pathway to those unknown realms That in the earth's broad shadow...  Christianity and the Social Crisis - Page 392by Walter Rauschenbusch - 1907 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John White Chadwick - 1890 - 220 pages
...angel than the child. Chances have laws as fixed as planets have, And disappointment's dry and b:tter root, Envy's harsh berries, and the choking pool Of the world's scorn, are the right mDther ra:'i To the tough hearts that pioneer their kind, And break a pathway to those unknown realms... | |
 | John Kennedy - Reference - 1890 - 304 pages
...rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air?— Milton. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.— Lowell. As a fair nymph, when rising from her bed, With sparkling diamonds dresses not her head, But... | |
 | Religion - 1891 - 624 pages
...supremest purposes Is steeper to the angel than the child. Chances have laws as fixed as planets have. And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh...quality. And patience all the passion of great hearts. ****** One day more These muttering shoal-brains leave the helm to me : God, let me not in their dull... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 pages
...supremest purposes Is steeper to the angel than the child. Chances have laws as fixed as planets have, And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh...realms That in the earth's broad shadow lie enthralled ; And patience all the passion of great hearts ; These are their stay, and when the leaden world Sets... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 770 pages
...Lowell in which Columbus is so appropriately commemorated: Chances have laws fixed as planets have, And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh...realms That in the earth's broad shadow lie enthralled. To the many celebrations and to the several statues to be erected in honor of Columbus, it would seem... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1891 - 560 pages
...supremest purposes Is steeper to the angel than the child. Chances have laws as fixed as planeta have, And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh...mother-milk To the tough hearts that pioneer their kino. And break a pathway to those unknown realms That in the earth's broad shadow lie enthralled ;... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 580 pages
...he is in almost everything, is for once wrong in these lines, though with a noble wrongness : — " Disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh...the choking pool Of the world's scorn, are the right mother-mllk To the tough hearts that pioneer their kind." They are not so ; love and trust are the... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - America - 1892 - 502 pages
...the same author. Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Chances have laws as fixed as planets have; And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh berries, and the choking pool Of-the world's scorn are the right mother-milk To the tough hearts that pioneer their kind, And break... | |
 | Archibald Henry Grimké - Abolitionists - 1892 - 426 pages
...kind. His self-poise and control for nine months were simply admirable. " Endurance," says Lowell, "is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts." Certainly, during those trying months, they were Sumner's, the crowning quality and the passion. First... | |
 | Archibald Henry Grimké - Abolitionists - 1892 - 426 pages
...kind. His self-poise and control for nine months were simply admirable. " Endurance," says Lowell, "is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts." Certainly, during those trying months, they were Sumner's, the crowning quality and the passion. First... | |
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