 | 1838 - 884 pagina’s
...sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. — " And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe and bare, l-'or that their spirits never swooned To watch the misery there, — For that their love but flowed... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pagina’s
...sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. — "And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe...conscious what mere drops they cast Into the evil sea. It is the distant and the dim That we are sick to greet: For floweres that grow our hands beneath We... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pagina’s
...sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. " And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe...but flowed more fast, Their charities more free, Not ccaTcious what mere drops Into tha^vil sea. " A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pagina’s
....sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. " And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe...To watch the misery there, — For that their love bat flowed more fast, Their charities more free, Not conscious what mere drops they cast Into the evil... | |
 | 1838 - 722 pagina’s
...every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. — VOL. VII. N° XIV. 2 Y " And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe and bare, For that their spirits never swoonM To watch the misery there, — For that their love but flow'd more fast. Their charities more... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...sublimes! needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. And what if nature's fearful wound They did not probe and bare, For that their spirits never swoon'd To watch the misery there, — For that their love but flow'd more fast, Their charities more... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pagina’s
...sublimest needs With tasks of ev'ry day, They went about their gravest deeds As noble boys at play — And what if Nature's fearful wound They did not probe and bare, For that their spirits never swoon'd To watch the misery there, — For that their love but flow'd more fast, Their charities more... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. And what if nature's fearful wound They did not probe and bare, For that their spirits never swoon'd To watch the misery there, — For that their love but flow'd more fast, Their charities more... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 260 pagina’s
...blood." There is no purer and more lasting enjoyment of life than falls to their lot, who feel that " A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet ;" who feel, amid the vicissitudes of time, that they are environed by associations and objects rendered... | |
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Blending their souls' sublimest needs With tasks of every day, They went about their gravest deeds, As noble boys at play. 
