 Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild motley throng — Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav, Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn...  Proceedings ... - Page 163by New York State Bar Association - 1902Full view - About this book
 | James Roscoe Day - Labor - 1921 - 384 pages
...Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Accents of menace alien to our air. Voices that once..."O Liberty, white Goddess, is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate, Lift the downtrodden,... | |
 | Clinton Stoddard Burr - Aliens - 1922 - 412 pages
...And through them presses a wild, a motley throng — Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes . . . Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, These bringing...O Liberty, White Goddess ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? . . . Stay those who to thy sacred portals come To waste the gifts of freedom."208... | |
 | Constantine Maria Panunzio - Aliens - 1927 - 332 pages
...bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In streets and alley what strange tongues are these; Accents...O Liberty, white Goddess ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? . — Thomat Bailey Aldrich, 1892. I DOWN to about 1880, therefore, the Asylum tradition... | |
 | Constantine Maria Panunzio - Aliens - 1927 - 328 pages
...bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In streets and alley what strange tongues are these; Accents...our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew I O Liberty, white Goddess ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1892.... | |
 | American essays - 1892 - 970 pages
...to the fagot and the sword. Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild motley throng — Men from the Volga and the Tartar...our air. Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew ! О Liberty, white Goddess ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's... | |
 | Martin Ridge - Social Science - 284 pages
...impressions of the immigrants. The poem "Unguarded Gates" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich was meant as a warning: In street and alley what strange tongues are these....O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?s7 On returning to his native land in 1907 after many years of residence abroad, Henry... | |
 | Genevieve Fabre, Robert O'Meally - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 332 pages
...and alley what strange tongues are these, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once that Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? (Aldrich 1892; cf. Zangwill 1910, 199-200) Aldrich's liberty is imagined not as a... | |
 | Bailey Van Hook - Social Science - 2004 - 308 pages
...Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once...O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate, Lift the down-trodden,... | |
 | Juan F. Perea - Law - 1997 - 368 pages
...Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once...O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate, Lift the down-trodden,... | |
 | Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut - Political Science - 1996 - 422 pages
...Conclusion Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild motley throng . . . Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!45 The author of these lines, Thomas B. Aldrich, was the eminent editor of the Atlantic Monthly,... | |
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