 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 126by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...It is for each one of us more or less to seek for a brighter hope, not to be baffled by failure, " Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." When Philip Neri was at one of the Italian universities there went to him a youth who told him with... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. WEAKiyESS. O I.ITTLE feet ! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears Must ache and... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...I iiive feet to scale and climb. By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.' " " Does he really mean, then, that these failures and mistakes, these awful stumbles and perilous... | |
 | 1873 - 500 pages
...ever readiness of JESUS to welcome souls to Himself, would not doubt it for one moment. CHAPTER V. " Nor deem the irrevocable past, * As wholly wasted,...its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain." LONGFELLOW. " ARE you going out now, Virginia ?" said Miss Brereton, putting her head into Evered's... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to brighter destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, standing on its... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...the failures of the past are of avail in fitting us for the responsibilies of the future. We need not deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. Some such thoughts were crowding our mind while we waited for the train during the first hours of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. 300 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. CURFEW. SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew-bell Is beginning... | |
 | John Cumming - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1853 - 212 pages
...attain'd by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain." Courage is the mission of the few ; patience is the duty of all. Be sure you are pursuing the right... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. GRAHAM'S MAOAZIXE. LAST HOURS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE P. UPSHUR, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.* US FRIGATE CUMBERLAND,... | |
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