 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
 | Woodcroft, One of Themselves - 1860 - 322 pages
...resting-place where the storms of doubt and distrust come no more. CHAPTER XI. NATURAL DEFECTS OF CHARACTER. " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem th' irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly Tain, If, standing on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 628 pages
...caught and threw back the yellow light, and Mr. Jenifer read in letters of gold the poet's words — " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." He sank on his knees, and there in contrition of spirit and anguish of soul dedicated anew to his Maker... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 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...at last To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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...the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, Tf, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. LONGFELLOW. fify foob feat $lmt. "... | |
 | 1862 - 972 pages
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks at last, To something nobler we attain." INWARD PEACE. A FEW days ago, while niy thoughts were led to dwell more especially upon this subject,... | |
 | Ellen Clacy - 1862 - 294 pages
...their companions slept. Were toiling upwards in the night. * Nor deem th" irrevocable Past As whoDy wasted — wholly vain— If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.' " " Ah ! the ' irrevocable Past,'" sighed Maude. " Look upward and onward, dear, not back, except to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 260 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...we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christ! , Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here set down in rhyme.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 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...last To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. Is Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 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. CURFEW. SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers,... | |
 | Henri Charles Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 188 pages
...the past carefully in all its scientific and natural facts, and as Longfellow beautifully says, — " Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." This is the true aim of all inquiry. — EDITOR.] FlNIS. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Aborigines, 54 Abou Simbel,... | |
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