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" When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou: one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling.... "
History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent: I ... - Page 270
by George Bancroft - 1852 - 10 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 19

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1842 - 628 pages
...; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 19

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1842 - 646 pages
...be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thce has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has Inunch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...be, is scarred II With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs II Are strong with struggling. Power I at thee has launched His bolts, and ' with his lightnings...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. 25 Merciless power | has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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Poems

William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten thee ;...They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven. Merciless Power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swait armourers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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Poems

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1847 - 390 pages
...; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched...They could not quench the life thou hast from heaven. Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, And his swart armorers, by a thousand fires, Have forged...
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Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with bis lightnings smitten thee; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven." Bryant. WHEN the...
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Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with hi$ lightnings smitten thee ; They could not quench the life thou hast from Heaven," Bryant. WHEN the...
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