 MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are...  English Poetry (1170-1892) - Page 326by John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 580 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...and pen. Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh! raise...sea ; Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and Dower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. — We are selfish men ; Oh,...sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, — majestic, free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest... | |
 | England - 1854 - 760 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise...the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on lile's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise...apart : Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the se» : Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free, So did' at thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | Theology - 1854 - 532 pages
...champion of light and freedom, and virtue and faith, — " Milton! them shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom,...the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh, raise...sea ; Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise...the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel in life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 312 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wreath of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower, Of inward happiness.. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise...the sea. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise...the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 308 pages
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give us manners,...voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free. Yet didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet... | |
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