 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,...  The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Poems - Page 66by James Russell Lowell - 1905 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 798 pages
...read by one of the noblest and most sorely tried of men, a hero comparable with any of Plutarch's, "The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." Dear old Thackeray ! — as everybody that knew him intimately calls him, now he is gone. That is his... | |
 | 1872 - 810 pages
...faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." FRENCH AND GERMAN.* Bv far the cleverest and most entertaining book that we have to notice this month... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...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 kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...silence comes : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. vn. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...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 bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,... | |
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