 ... porphyry, they slope and coldly glass The flying storm and wheeling sun. No chink, No crevice lets the thinnest arrow in. He fights alone, and from the cloudy ramparts A thousand evil faces gibe and jeer him. Let him lie down and die : what is the...  Poems - Page 67by Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1887 - 984 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die : what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient; And...thoughts beneath the friendly stars. DESIRE OF SLEEP. IT is not death I mean, Nor even forgetfulness, But healthful human sleep, Dreamless, and still, and... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 134 pages
...Souls that heavier burdens bore : — " See the wretch that dared not live ! " THE REFORMER. [JEFORE the monstrous wrong he sets him down — One man against...thoughts beneath the friendly stars. DESIRE OF SLEEP. ijT is not death I mean, Nor even forgetfulness, But healthful human sleep, Dreamless, and still, and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1888 - 338 pages
...jeer him. Let him He down and die: what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient; And...Watch-tower and citadel and battlements. When the red dust hiis cleared, the lonely soldier Stands with strange thoughts beneath the friendly stars." Another... | |
 | 1888 - 262 pages
...him lie down and die : what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by-and-by, earth shakes herself, impatient ; And down, in one great roar of ruin, crash Watch tower and citadel and battlements. When the red dust has cleared, the lonely soldier Stands with... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1891 - 296 pages
...ONLY ONE. " Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down— One man against a stone walled city of sin. When the red dust has cleared, the lonely soldier...with strange thoughts beneath the friendly stars." — ER SILL. THERE are a great many people in this world — hundreds of millions, tables of population... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1902 - 370 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die : what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient ; And...thoughts beneath the friendly stars. DESIRE OF SLEEP IT is not death I mean, Nor even forgetf illness, But healthful human sleep, Dreamless, and still,... | |
 | 1902 - 542 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die: what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this? But, by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient ;...with strange thoughts beneath the friendly stars." Young People's Religious Onion. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. BY MR. EDWARD MARSH, PRESIDENT.... | |
 | Elizabeth Hill Spalding - 1905 - 296 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die ; what is the right And where the justice in a world like this ! But, by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient ;...with strange thoughts beneath the friendly stars. EDWARD ROWLAND SILL. List of poems, from which one may be chosen for memorizing : — James Russell... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 458 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die : what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient ; And...thoughts beneath the friendly stars. DESIRE OF SLEEP IT is not death I mean, Nor even forgetfulness, But healthful human sleep, Dreamless, and still, and... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 468 pages
...jeer him. Let him lie down and die : what is the right, And where is justice, in a world like this ? But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient ; And...thoughts beneath the friendly stars. DESIRE OF SLEEP IT is not death I mean, Nor even forgetfulness, But healthful human sleep, Dreamless, and still, and... | |
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