 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...  Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine - Էջ 3361902Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 էջ
...and blood-stains, On his brow an angry frown. 9. Pure tone. O Freedom, thou art not, us poets dr<5am, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,...master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. Orotund. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and... | |
 | 1872 - 514 էջ
...Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. FREEDOM.— BRYANT. O FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl with light...cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave, THE PRICE OF ELOQUENCE. 415 When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thon... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 էջ
...the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of Liberty. O FREEDOM ! tliou art not, as poetg dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate...tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crown'd his slave, When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, \ rm'il to the terth, art thou : one... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 էջ
...entitled "Antiquity of Freedom," already alluded to, presents a fine instance: O FBEEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs. It will be noticed here how beautifully the effect of aerial sculpture, which the ear apprehends in... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1874 - 556 էջ
...as they are on all other human affairs. Bryant, in his glorious poem, apostrophizes freedom, not as "A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses," but as "A bearded man armed to the teeth." And adds — " Thine enemy never sleeps, And thou must watch... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 էջ
...thoughts go up the long dim path of years, Back to the earliest days of liberty. 0 FREEDOM ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light...man. Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand (! rasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 էջ
...with ease than strenuous liberty. Milton. 1358. FREEDOM. Personification of 0 FREEDOM !— thou art m AYüQ which the Roman master crown'd his slave VVben he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Arm'd to... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1885 - 604 էջ
...Bryant strikes the keynote both of fact and prophecy respecting American liberty: " O freedom., thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl with light...delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cop, With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off his gyves. A bearded man, Armed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 էջ
...freed, what was called the Phrygian cap (a bonnet rouge) was put upon the head in token of freedom ; " the cap with which the Roman master crowned his slave, when he took off the gyves." The red cap worn by French revolutionists is by them cherished as a symbol of liberty. of King George,... | |
 | Charles Force Deems - 1878 - 780 էջ
...Freedom I thou art not, us poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delloate limbs, Ami wnvy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave Whon he took off the gyves. A bearded man Artanl to the teeth art thou; one mailed hand Grnspx the... | |
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