 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 844 pagina’s
...memory: who has ever more nobly described the coming of death to the hero than in this passage ? — " Come in her crowning hour, and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions...— Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 502 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of Fame ii wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour ;' and then Thy... | |
 | Janus - 1826 - 568 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions...task of Fame is wrought ; Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood bought ; Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1827 - 76 pagina’s
...the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions...eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ;... | |
 | 1827 - 500 pagina’s
...the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions...eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ;... | |
 | 1827 - 496 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions...laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave * Plaintive. Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there is no prouder... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pagina’s
...to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word. And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Best thee — there is no prouder... | |
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But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. 
