 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
 | John D. Seelye - History - 1998 - 724 pages
...and bringing with it "unknown gods and rites": "In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, / Accents of menace alien to our air, / Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew" ( Writings, 2:71-72). Not coincidentally, Lodge's speech in the Senate urging the restriction of immigration... | |
 | Michael North - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...same name bring with them a disturbing cacophony: In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew.85 Thus, in a book that had gone through twenty-one editions by 1892, William Mathews declared... | |
 | Gavin Jones - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 346 pages
..."Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav": "In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, / Accents of menace alien to our air, / Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!" New York as a modern-day Babel was a common image of the age because it combined anxieties over urban... | |
 | Genealogy - 1905 - 986 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 ? Soothe the hurts of fate ; lift the downtrodden, but with hand of steel stay those... | |
 | Martha Banta - Art - 2003 - 448 pages
...figures of the Huang-Ho, Melayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav, Flying the World's poverty and scorn; O Liberty, white goddess, is it well To leave the...breast Fold sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of gate, Lift the downtrodden, but with the hands of steel Stay those who to thy sacred portals come To... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 650 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? Even before the United States entered the war, politicians, educators, and journalists... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - History - 1895 - 121 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,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...rites,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 the Tower of Babel knew! 30 O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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 the Tower of Babel knew! 30 O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children,... | |
 | American essays - 1892 - 960 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...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,... | |
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