 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.  Poems - Σελίδα 148των Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Towle Marriott - 1879 - 204 σελίδες
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. 3 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 4 Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | 1880 - 208 σελίδες
...gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we can not soar; But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. —Longfelloui: "TJie Ladder of St. Augustine.' 1 '' X. GOOD name, in man and woman, dear my lord,... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 σελίδες
...fall; But if true lips have said to me, " I love you," I have known it all ! Phœbe Cary. June June 15. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies. HW Longfellmv. June 17. A beauty that bewilders like a spell Reigns in thine eye's clear hazel, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 686 σελίδες
...crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached anj kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they,...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 attain.... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 σελίδες
...That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In Mtmoriam. "The height by great men reached and kept Were not attained by...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 σελίδες
...but gigantic flights of stairs. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions...upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Nor... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1881 - 378 σελίδες
...true lips have said to me, " I love you," I have known it all ! Phabe Cary. 126 June 14. June 15. 127 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies. HW Longfellow. June 17. A beauty that bewilders like a spell Reigns in thine eye's clear hazel, and... | |
 | 1911 - 458 σελίδες
...grieved to hear the criticism, "That poetry is very stiff. Besides, it is borrowed, every word." 22. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 23. Recitation — "Excelsior." 24. Among the world's favorite poems are his, — "The Village Blacksmith,"... | |
 | 1881 - 796 σελίδες
...INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. 65 A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. * * * * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. * * * # Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks at last,... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 σελίδες
...wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." In this character-building, we can help each other. For, in the " Psalm of Life," he sings : • —... | |
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