 They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their look is dread to see, For they mind you of their angels in high places, With eyes turned on Deity. ' How long,' they say, ' how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's...  Poems - Page 20by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862Full view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...O cruel nation ! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants 1 And your purple shows your path — But the child's sob cnrseth deeper in the silence,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 670 pages
...How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you .'.ii'll-I. to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; 1'j'it the child's sob curseth deeper in... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...long, O cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Trample down with a mail'd heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants! And your purple shows your path — But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
..." How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — .Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants, And your purple shews your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...not speak the truth, I could not lie, — And so without a word I passed them by. — Temple Bar. AM A CHILD ASLEEP. How he sleepeth ! having drunken Weary...pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures to make room for moreSleeping near the withered nosegay, which he pulled the day before. Nosegays ! leave them for the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...; 'How long,' they say, 'how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,...onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
..."how long, О cruel nation! Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart ? Trample down with mailed heel its palpitation. And tread onward to your...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, О our tyrants ! And your purple shows your path." But the child's eob eurse/h deeper in the silence... | |
 | John Rogers Bolles - Solitude and society - 1846 - 144 pages
...infancy " How long (they say) how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand to move the world upon a child's heart — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,...throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O, our tyrants. And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence '... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
..." How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,...to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob curseth deeper in the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...— How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Out blood splashes upwards, O our tyrants, And your purple shows your path ; But the child's sob... | |
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