 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 էջ
...Amidst that pilgrim band — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's...ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left undimm'd what there they foundFreedom to worship God ! MBS. HEMANS. THE BLIND CHILD. WHERE'S the Blind... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 էջ
...A midst that pilgrim-band — Why had they come to wither there Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's...ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they found— Freedom to worship God ! BERNARDO DEL CARPIO. TRE warrior bow'd... | |
 | Cheshire Pastoral Association (Cheshire, Conn.) - 1845 - 498 էջ
...white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared, — This was their welcome home ! 4 What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine'!...unstained what there they found : Freedom to worship God. 894. LM 6 1,. MONTGOMERY. Humility. 1 THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 էջ
...Amidst that pilgrim band, Why had they come — to wither there, Away — from their childhood's land? There was woman's — fearless eye, Lit — by her...spoils of war? They sought — a faith's pure shrine! Aye, call it holy ground, The soil — where first they trod! [found— They have left, unstained —... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1845 - 382 էջ
...hair Amidst that pilgrim-band — Why had they come to wither there Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 էջ
...Amidst that pilgrim band: — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's...what there they found, — Freedom to worship God. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903) HENLEY WAS born in Gloucester, England. Tuberculosis as a child forced... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 էջ
...New England shore. (1. 5—8) 5 What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealthy on a Wicked Bishop 1 Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bish 207 POETRY QUOTATIONS 208 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained... | |
 | Edmund Carpenter - 2007 - 132 էջ
...can truly charge that religious oppression or intolerance was ever a part of their creed or practice. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of wax? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 էջ
...her poem on the "Pilgrim Fathers," the last stanzas of which is '' Ay, call it holy ground, The Boil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found, Freedom to worship God." IV. GEORGE RUGGLE, AUTHOR OF SOME EARLY PUBLICATIONS UPON THE VIRGINIA COLONY. George Ruggle, late... | |
 | William J. Bennett - 1997 - 392 էջ
...that pilgrim band: Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was a woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth;...spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine! Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they... | |
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What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom... 
