 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1827 - 112 pages
...up Into his mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now Upon... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...Her noble boy stood by her with his hand The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. 5. Why bends the patriarch, as he cometh now,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1835 - 274 pages
...mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his dimpled bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly in his...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now Upon his staff so wearily ? His beard Is low upon... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...Into his mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath hi* snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now Upon... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...up Into his mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch, as he cometh now, Upon... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his dimpled bosom, and his form Straighten'd up proudly in his tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swell'd, Had they but mateh'd his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriareh as he cometh now Upon... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Apostles - 1847 - 282 pages
...mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his dimpled bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly in his...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch, as he cometh now Upon... | |
 | 1846 - 498 pages
...spirit there; and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened tip proudly in his tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch as he comcth now, upon... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...up Into his mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now Upon... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...up Into his mother's face until he caught The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form Straightened up proudly...tiny wrath, As if his light proportions would have swelled, Had they but matched his spirit, to the man. Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now Upon... | |
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Is low upon his breast, and his high brow, So written with the converse of his God, Beareth the swollen vein of agony. His lip is quivering, and his wonted step... 
