 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,...  The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 68by James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...valor too. I daro do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. SHAITSPEARE. Then to Eide 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... | |
 | Eliza Wigham - 1863 - 180 pages
...to appreciate the courage of those who began to assail it — two or three against the millions. " 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 —... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...compromise with sin." [brood, Slavery, the earthborn Cyclops, feilest of the giant Suns of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,...in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day, VOL. i. 11 Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable Shall we guide his gory fingers where... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...compromise with Sin ! " Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,...his gory fingers where our helpless children play ? 'T is as easy to be heroes, as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 354 pages
...compromise with Sin !" Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,...his gory fingers where our helpless children play ? Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. Was the Mayflower launched by cowards... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who Lave drenched the earth with blood, Famished in his self-made...his gory fingers where our helpless children play? Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. Was the Mayflower launched by cowards?... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1866 - 352 pages
...compromise with Sin ! " Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,...his gory fingers where our helpless children play? 'T is as easy to be heroes, as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 340 pages
...desert, blinded by our purer day, VOL. I. 11 Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable preysShall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children...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... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 pages
...Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood, Famished in his ¿elf-made desert, blinded by our purer day, Gropes in yet unblasted...his gory fingers where our helpless children play r 'Tis as easy to be heroes, as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 620 pages
...POETRY, AND INCIDENTS. Slavery, the earth-bom Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood. Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood,...his gory fingers where our helpless children play r 'Tis as easy to be heroes, as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
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