 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm, Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet-song and dance and wine, — And them are terrible ! the tear, — The groan, — the knell, — the pall, — the bier, And all we... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible:—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword • Come when his task of fame is wrought; Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought; Come in her crowning... | |
 | Robert John Walker - Finance - 1864 - 414 pages
...Halleck. Hear how one of your own poets apostrophizes when it fell upon a soldier of freedom : — • " But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its bolder tones are heard The thoughts of millions yet to be. Come when this task of fame is wrought ;... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 476 pages
...every pathway of life and dims every vision of joy. O, Death! thou art indeed "the King of Terrors!" "The tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine!" What would have been the physical history of man had he never sinned it is not easy to determine. It... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 482 pages
...every pathway of life and dims every vision of joy. O, Death! thou art indeed "the King of Terrors!" "The tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine I" What would have been the physical history of. man had he never sinned it is not easy to determine.... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine, — • And thou art terrible ! -=— tli* tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine ! 5. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, » Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake-shock, the ocean-storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine ; And thou art teirible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1864 - 466 pages
...Hail, holy light 1 offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the eternal, co-eternal beam. 3. The t£ar, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fiar Of agony, are thine. REMARK. — The stress of voice on each successive particular, or repetition,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine ; And thou art terrible — the...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. Marco Bozzaris. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like... | |
 | Lydia Minturn Post - United States - 1865 - 484 pages
...All theories, creeds, and systems of religion award a crown of unfading glory to the martyr. Not only "To the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free," and who then falls with his back to the earth and his feet to the foe ; not only to him who plans campaigns,... | |
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That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke, — Come in consumption's ghastly form — The earthquake shock — the ocean storm — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou... 
