 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 518 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts to come,' ind nerves them and dilates : Nor such thy teaching^ Jlother of us all ! Not such tjie.tfnmpet-call... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1867 - 472 pages
...sings In manly hearts to come, and nerves them and dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That...happy homes and toils, the fruitful nest Of those half- virtues which the world calls best, Into War's tumult rude ; But rather far that stern device... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all! Not such the trumpet.call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts to come, and nerves them and dilates : Not such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...lives to make it good; Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 294 pages
...our life with wings Par from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear famewhose memory sings In manly hearts to come, and nerves them...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts...dilates : Nor such thy teaching, Mother of us all ! Not such the trumpet-call Of thy diviner mood, That could thy sons entice From happy homes and toils,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts to come, and nerves them and dilates : Nor such tby teaching, Mother of us all! Not such the trumpet-call Of tby diviner mood, That could tby sons... | |
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From happy homes and toils, the fruitful nest Of those half-virtues which the world calls best, Into War's tumult rude; But rather far... 
