| Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 pages
...poems were as effective in stirring patriotic emotions: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Emerson, philosopher, Transcendental leader,... | |
| B. McClure - 2005 - 632 pages
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| Meghan Fitzmaurice - 2006 - 122 pages
...is weighing in the balance. "Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!," Longfellow writes. "Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! / Humanity with all its fears / With all the hopes of future years, / Is hanging breathless on thy fate!" THE "WHITE LONGFELLOW" But for a time,... | |
| Alden Hatch - 2005 - 440 pages
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| Victor Chen - 2005 - 527 pages
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| Jonathan Foreman - 2005 - 112 pages
...ABROAD 2849 Longfellow's "The Building of the Ship": "Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! / Sail on, O Union, strong and great! / Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years, / Is hanging breathless on thy fate!" 1849 Anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant "Know-Nothing"... | |
| Charles C. Calhoun - 2005 - 356 pages
...a stanza that begins with these much-quoted lines: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Longfellow's work of the 1850s rarely strikes... | |
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