Writings in Seven Volumes, Volumen3Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892 |
Términos y frases comunes
altar angels Barbara Frietchie beauty beneath blast blazon blessing blood blow bondman's brave break breath brow calm chain Christian cloud crime crown curse dark dead dream earth evil eyes faith Faneuil Hall fathers fear fetters fire flag Free Soil party Freedom Freedom called Freedom's Frémont glory God's gone grave gray green Hall hand hate hath hear heard heart heaven hills holy hope human JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Joseph Sturge land Liberty Liberty County light lips look Lord Massachusetts Moloch mountain night Northern o'er pain pale fire peace Perugia poor praise prayer priest Rain-in-the-Face round scorn shadow shame shines slave slavery Slavery's song soul Southron stand stood storm strong sweet sword tears thee thine thou to-day toil tongue Toussaint L'Ouverture tread trod truth unto voice wall wave Where'er wild wind words wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 256 - How they pale, Ancient myth and song and tale, In this wonder of our days, When the cruel rod of war Blossoms white with righteous law, And the wrath of man is praise!
Página 248 - Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that loved it well; And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night.
Página 222 - The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.
Página 47 - Our fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past, their triumph won ; But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honored place ; A moral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. So let it be. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons He has given, — The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Página 313 - All through the long, bright days of June Its leaves grew green and fair, And waved in hot midsummer's noon Its soft and yellow hair.
Página 247 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Página 312 - Urged by the good host's daughter, a maiden young and fair, Lifting to light her sweet blue eyes and pride of soft brown hair...
Página 315 - Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold, — "Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?
Página 36 - Shall outraged Nature cease to feel ? Shall Mercy's tears no longer flow ? Shall ruffian threats of cord and steel, The dungeon's gloom, the assassin's blow, Turn back the spirit roused to save The Truth, our Country, and the Slave ? Of human skulls that shrine was made, Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed ; Is Freedom's altar fashioned so...
Página 39 - What ! preach and kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine...