 | James Russell Lowell - Veterans - 1844 - 308 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his1 kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...In whom no good they saw, And yet unwittingly, in truth, They made his careless words their law. " And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother was a god." ANTIGONE. A large proportion, both of the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...even the sweetest and most significant words you can devise. So a poet says of an ideal character : " His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough, In his seemed musical and low ; They called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth,... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 642 pages
...can devise. So a poet says of an ideal character — ' His words were simple words enough, And vet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough. In hie seem'd mueical and low. They call'd Mm but a shiftless youth. In whom no good they saw; And yet,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. Yet after he was dead and gone, And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god. 1842. THE TOKEN. IT is a mere wild rosebud,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. Aita so, well-pleased with being soothed His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...youth, In whom no good they saw, And yet unwittingly, in truth, They made his careless words their law. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother was a god. ' DIANA. THE graceful goddess was arrayed... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...a sweet half.sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In hie seemed musicahind low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet,... | |
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His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 
