The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other PoemsMifflin, 1905 - 113 pages A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper. |
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... round about the place ; The leper no longer crouched at his side , But stood before him glorified , Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate , - Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the ...
... round about the place ; The leper no longer crouched at his side , But stood before him glorified , Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate , - Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the ...
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... round ; The meanest serf on Sir Launfal's land Has hall and bower at his command ; And there's no poor man in the North Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he . 340 345 POEMS HAVING A SPECIAL RELATION TO THE VISION OF SIR ...
... round ; The meanest serf on Sir Launfal's land Has hall and bower at his command ; And there's no poor man in the North Countree But is lord of the earldom as much as he . 340 345 POEMS HAVING A SPECIAL RELATION TO THE VISION OF SIR ...
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... round his gracious knee , And a poor hunted slave looked up and smiled To bless the smile that set him free ; New miracles I saw his presence do , No more I knew the hovel bare and The gathered chips into a woodpile grew , - poor , The ...
... round his gracious knee , And a poor hunted slave looked up and smiled To bless the smile that set him free ; New miracles I saw his presence do , No more I knew the hovel bare and The gathered chips into a woodpile grew , - poor , The ...
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... round unburied , delving in the nobler clod . 15 For mankind are one in spirit , and an instinct bears along , Round the earth's electric circle , the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious , yet Humanity's ...
... round unburied , delving in the nobler clod . 15 For mankind are one in spirit , and an instinct bears along , Round the earth's electric circle , the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious , yet Humanity's ...
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... funeral lamps away To light up the martyr - fagots round the prophets of to - day ? 85 New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still , and onward , who would 30 THE PRESENT CRISIS.
... funeral lamps away To light up the martyr - fagots round the prophets of to - day ? 85 New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still , and onward , who would 30 THE PRESENT CRISIS.
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Page 26 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 31 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust. Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside. Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 66 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 3 - Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 22 - MEN ! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed...
Page 15 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 8 - But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
Page 4 - Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay; Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it...
Page 26 - ... Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou...