 FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 3441856Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...immeasurably old — My thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! thou art not as poets dream, A fair young...beauty though it be, is scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap \Vith which the Roman master crown'd his slave, "When he...beauty though it be, is scarr'd With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong and struggling. Power at thee has launch'd His bolts, and with his lightnings... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 pages
...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 840 LATER POEMS. Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...With which the Roman master cruwned his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to (he teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...master crowned his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou 5 one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the...sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off" the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the...sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched... | |
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