And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Poems - Strana 151podľa William Cowper - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Christopher Anderson - 1815 - Počet stránok 88
...similar treatment, to some of them at least the following lines are but too appropriate. They lived unknown, 'Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew —No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies... | |
| William Cowper - 1818 - Počet stránok 448
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
| John Evans - 1819 - Počet stránok 444
...it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed^upon IMMORTAL TRUTH, . To walk with GOD, to be divinely...anticipate the skies! Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till PERSECUTION dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven ! Their ashes flew... | |
| William Cowper - 1819 - Počet stránok 306
...pain. Their blood is she* In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal train, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies1. Yet few remember them They Kv'd unknown, Till Persecution draggM them into fame, And chas'd... | |
| William Cowper - 1869 - Počet stránok 306
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew— No marble tells us whither. With their namoe No bard embalms and sanctifies... | |
| John Anderson - 1820 - Počet stránok 484
...win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to teed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely...persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes flew No mai-ble telli us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - Počet stránok 556
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Then- ashes flew... | |
| British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 310
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - Počet stránok 470
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth. To walk with God,...their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song . i)7;J THE TASK. And History, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - Počet stránok 450
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their namea No bard embalms and sanctifies his song . And History, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.... | |
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