They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see. For they mind you of their angels in high places, With eyes turned on Deity. " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world on a child's... Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works - Página 155por Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1873 - 403 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1843 - 832 páginas
...O cruel nation ! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants 1 And your purple shows your path — But the child's sob cnrseth deeper in the silence,... | |
| 1846 - 670 páginas
..." how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you .'.ii'll-I. to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; 1'j'it the child's sob curseth deeper in... | |
| 1843 - 1380 páginas
...long, O cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants! And your purple shows your path — But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 páginas
...say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — .Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants, And your purple shews your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
| 1865 - 820 páginas
...not speak the truth, I could not lie, — And so without a word I passed them by. — Temple Bar. AM A CHILD ASLEEP. How he sleepeth ! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures to make room for moreSleeping near the withered nosegay, which... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 páginas
...they say, 'how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread...onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
..."how long, О cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart ? Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation. And tread onward to your...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, О our tyrants ! And your purple shows your path." But the child's eob eurse/h deeper in the silence... | |
| John Rogers Bolles - 1846 - 142 páginas
...(they say) how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand to move the world upon a child's heart — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O, our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
| 1846 - 668 páginas
...say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 páginas
..."how long, O cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart! Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation. And tread onward to your...throne amid the mart ! Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants ! And your purple shows your path," But the child's nob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
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