 Can trample an empire down. We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that...  The Living Age - Page 1941873Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 392 pages
...buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself in our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth ; For each age is a dream that is dying, A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly,... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
...go forth and conquer a crown ; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down .... A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation...their present, And their work in the world be done. ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY : Ode r Song justifies itself, but they who sing, Raining ethereal music from... | |
 | Eli Lemon Sheldon - English poetry - 1895 - 336 pages
...Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three, with a new song's measure, Can trample a kingdom down. A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation;...their present And their work in the world be done, —Arthur O'Shatighnaty. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. IT might have been that the sky was green, and the graw... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's...dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN [1841-1901] 734 L1z THE crimson light of sunset falls Through the grey glamour... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 406 pages
...buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself in our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the Old of the New World's...dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth, ARTHUR O'SHAUCHNESSV, ACCORDANCE HE WHO with bold and skillful hand sweeps o'er The organ-keys of some... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1897 - 376 pages
...itself in our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth ; Kor each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. A. 0' Shaughnessy II CRADLE SONG What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 pages
...past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth ; And o'erthrow them with prophesying To the Old of the New World's...For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that ia coming to birth. n. BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. COME, poet, come ! A thousand laborers ply their task,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...itself with our mirth ; And o'erthrow them with prophesying To the Old of the New World's worth : Tor each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. n. BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUQH. COME, poet, come ! A thousand laborers ply their task, And what it tends... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1900 - 298 pages
...buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself in our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's...dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. II A. O'Shaughnessy CRADLE SONG What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's...dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. 829. Song T MADE another garden, yea, For my new Love : I left the dead rose where it lay And set the... | |
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