 | 1839 - 446 pages
...That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — flighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest,...o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...That life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. TIII. Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | 1842 - 504 pages
...thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st th' eternal deep, Haunted for ever by th' eternal mind, — Mighty prophet ! seer blest ! On...o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy Being's height, Why with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pages
...blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal m•nd; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths...a slave, — A presence which is not to be put by; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...little plan or chart. Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly learned art : A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral...darkness of the grave; Thou, over w'hom thy immortality 56 57 Broods like the day, — a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...^ That life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Tin. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by ! Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep. Haunted forever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest...o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we arc toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the...o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height. Why with... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie That , deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,...a slave, — A presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with... | |
 | Caroline Mehetabel Sawyer - 1852 - 338 pages
...heedless of where lies the pitcher given by angels hands, well might the Poet address the child: — "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths...o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of Heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Wny, with... | |
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Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet!... 
