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" ... when she fears For him the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate, and checks her tears; And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried joys, And even she who gave... "
The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 231
by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pages
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...birth, Will by their pilgrim circled hearth, Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art IjKeedom's now and Fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die." The close of tliis fine poem is worthy of Collins. There is a slight want of arrangement in the images, tmt they...
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A Place in Thy Memory

Helen Aldrich De Kroyft - American literature - 1850 - 208 pages
...Winfield Scott; one of the noblest names that fame has ever inscribed upon our national escutcheon ; ' One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.' " But I am reminded that of these precious moments very few can be accorded to us, and before we bid...
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The Death and Funeral Ceremonies of John Caldwell Calhoun: Containing the ...

South Carolina. General Assembly - 1850 - 180 pages
...sighs at this dispensation of Heaven, that he now belongs to bright, to enduring history ; for his was one of " the few, the immortal names that were not born to die." Of his early history the gentleman who preceded me has spoken ; of his illustrious life, I need not...
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The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume 10

American-Irish Historical Society - Ethnology - 1911 - 530 pages
...by this great and patriotic Society than to see to the fulfilment of such a memorial. — "We tell thy doom without a sigh, For thou art Freedom's now...few, the immortal names That were not born to die." WASHINGTON AND HIS ARMY IN MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, WINTER OF I776-77.1 BY THE REV. ANDREW M. SHERMAN....
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The Builder, Volume 86

Architecture - 1904 - 730 pages
...though it is possible that by such means a potential master in architecture might be discovered : — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. The most that we can hope for in a general sense is to render likely a levelling up towards an improvement...
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Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia ..., Volume 10

Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 404 pages
...John Randolph Tucker will long live in the annals of Virginia and in the memory of her people. It is " One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die." Whether we consider him as a practising attorney, as a professor of law, as a statesman, as a popular...
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American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 246 pages
.../ The memory of her buried joys,/ And even she who gave thee birth,/ Will, by their pilgrim-circled hearth, / Talk of thy doom without a sigh, / For thou...few, the immortal names, / That were not born to die. / Written in 1824. Copied if April '57, at the request of James T. Fields, Esq. Fitz-Greene Halleck...
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An Introductory Treatise on Elocution: With Principles and Illustration ...

Mark Bailey - Elocution - 1880 - 80 pages
...nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee ! there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art Freedom's now...few, the immortal names, That were not born to die ! " Both ' ludicrous ' and ' sarcastic ' pieces should have long ' circumflex slides ' and ' compound...
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Good Housekeeping Magazine, Volume 34

Home economics - 1902 - 738 pages
...idea : "Well may you always be, 111 may you never see, Here's to your health, And the good companie !" "One of the few, the immortal names, that were not born to die !" A BIRTHDAY DINNER "The glass of fashion and the mold of form I" "Full of wise saws, and modern instances."...
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The Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume 3

Confederate States of America - 1895 - 582 pages
...That is all, but it is enough, for any eulogy would but detract from the spell of that single name: One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die. Comrades: Receive and act upon this suggestion before going to Houston. Call at a printing office in...
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