| Andrew Jackson Davis - Harmony (Philosophy) - 1867 - 422 pages
...and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. 6 Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with playful locks of gold, " Why smite," he asked, in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?" 1 Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke ; Yet nearer Hashed his ax's gleam ; Shuddering and sick... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold : 44 Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, 44 The fair, the old ? " Yet louder rang the Strong One's... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, O'erhung with paly locks of gold :^ « The fair, the old ?... | |
| 1870
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...smite," he asked in sad surprise, " The fair, the old i" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam; Shuddering and sick... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...blind, Groped for his old aeeustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrowu. is feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven Hashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream. I looked : aside the... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ; Deser O'ei-hung with paly locks of gold, — • " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?"... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...Grey-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Up-springing from the ruined Old I saw the New. 'T\vas but the ruin of the bad, — The wasting of... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...the old ?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, 98 THE PRISONER FOR DEBT. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed the Builder... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped lor his old, accustom'd stone, Lean'd on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'crhung with paly locks of gold : " Why smite," be asked in sad surprise, •• The fair, the old... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...Grey-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustom'd stone, Lean'd on hii staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...Yet louder rang the strong one's stroke ; Yet nearer flash'd his axe's gleam. Shuddering and sick of heart, I woke As from a dream. I look'd : aside the... | |
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