 THERE'S a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to me Than the blood that thrills in my bosom its earnest of liberty; And dear are the stars it harbors in its sunny field of blue As the hope of a further heaven that lights all our dim...  Later Lyrics - Page 24by Julia Ward Howe - 1866 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...earnest need for prayer: But a lowly heart that leans on Thee la happy anywhere! " THE FLAG. THERE 'sa flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more...burnished windows like a score of welcoming eyes. Comc hither, my brothers who wander in saintliness and in sin ! Come hither, ye pilgrims of Nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...than wut he sells Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me!" JR LOWELL: Mason and Slidell. THE FLAG. THERE'S a flag hangs over my threshold,...burnished windows like a score of welcoming eyes. With the terror of death upon him ; of failure Is all his tale : Come hither, my brothers who wander... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...than wut he sells Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me!" JR LOWELL : Masim and SlideU. THE FLAG. THERE'S a flag hangs over my threshold,...sunny field of blue As the hope of a further heaven thai lights all our dim lives through. But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...else than wut he sells Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me!" JR LOWELL: Mason and StiiclL THE FLAG. THERE'S a flag hangs over my threshold,...house is in holiday guise, Looking out. through its burnNhed windows like a score of welcoming eyes. Come hither, m'y hrothers who wander in saintliness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...threshold, whose folds are more dear to me Than the blood that thrills in mr bosom its earnest of liherty: And dear are the stars it harbors in its sunny field of blue As the hope of a furl h er heaven that 236 HEROIC. liat now should my guests lie merry, the house is in holiday guise,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...than wut he sells Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me!" JR LOWELL : Mason and Slidell. THE FLAG. THERE'S a flag hangs over my threshold,...further heaven that lights all our dim lives through. 237 But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise, Looking out, through its burnished... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me!" JR LOWELL: Mason ami Slidell. THE FLAG. THEBE'S a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more...field of blue As the hope of a further heaven that 236 But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise, Looking out, through its burnished... | |
 | American poetry - 1882 - 578 pages
...Wears long, an' thet JB May larn like you an' me ! " JK LOWELL : Mason and Slidell. THE FLAG. THERE' sa flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more...field of blue As the hope of a further heaven that 236 237 But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise, Looking out, through its... | |
 | New England - 1902 - 854 pages
...sings of "The Flag" not less does she tune her song from the home corner and its mother affection : "There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds...further heaven, that lights all our dim lives through." The same thought comes out even more strongly in the concluding stanza : "When the last true heart... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...angels That send distress and work, Hot task and sweating forehead, To heal man's idle irk, Pity her! THE FLAG. There's a flag hangs over my threshold,...of a further heaven that lights all our dim lives But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise. Looking out through its burnished... | |
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