The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, 1856 - 905 pages |
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Page 123 - Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again ! I hold to you the hands you first beheld, To show they still are free. Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me, And bid your tenant welcome to his home Again! O sacred forms, how proud you look! How high you lift your heads into the sky ! How huge you are! how mighty and how free!
Page 136 - I sat In my boat at night, when midway o'er the lake, The stars went out and down the mountain gorge The wind came roaring, I have sat and eyed The thunder...
Page 123 - Scaling yonder peak, I saw an eagle wheeling near its brow, O'er the abyss. His broad expanded wings Lay calm and motionless upon the air, As if he floated there without their aid, By the sole act of his unlorded will, That buoyed him proudly up.
Page 123 - Ye are the things that tower, that shine, whose smile Makes glad, whose frown is terrible, whose forms, Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear Of awe divine. Ye guards of liberty, I'm with you once again! I call to you With all my voice! I hold my hands to you, To show they still are free...
Page 174 - tis better than the first, But yet not good enough for such an aim As I'm to take — 'tis heavy in the shaft ; I'll not shoot with it ! (Throws it away.) Let me see my quiver. Bring it ! 'Tis not.
Page 172 - Ges. That is your ground. Now shall they measure thence A hundred paces. Take the distance. Tell. Is the line a true one ? Ges.
Page 124 - That buoyed him proudly up. Instinctively I bent my bow; yet kept he rounding still His airy circle, as in the delight Of measuring the ample range beneath And round about; absorbed, he heeded not The death that threatened him. I could not shoot— 'Twas Liberty! I turned my bow aside, And let him soar away!
Page 159 - Tell. Ay: They watch no more the avalanche. Ges. Why so? Tell. Because they look for thee. The hurricane Comes unawares upon them ; from its bed The torrent breaks, and finds them in its track. Ges. What do they then ? Tell. Thank Heaven it is not thou ! Thou hast perverted nature in them.
Page 159 - ... Tell. Because they look for thee ! The hurricane Comes unawares upon them ; from its bed The torrent breaks, and finds them in its track. Ges. What do they, then ? Tell. Thank Heaven, it is not thou ! Thou has perverted nature in them. The earth Presents her fruits to them, and is not thank...
Page 165 - Father ! TELL. Speak not to me. Let me not hear thy voice. Thou must be dumb ; And so should all things be. Earth should be dumb! And Heaven — unless its thunders muttered at The deed and sent a bolt to stop it.