 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, 10 Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, 15 Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, Friendship, and Love Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh,... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 334 pages
...Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, 10 Never hear the sweet music of speech,— I start at...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, u Their tameness is shocking'to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, Oh,... | |
 | Walter Barnes - English poetry - 1915 - 602 pages
...face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity 's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear...unacquainted with man Their tameness is shocking to me. How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion and truth,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, ю Never hear the sweet musió bestowed upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again I ю My sorrows... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1916 - 416 pages
...have seen in thy face ? 'Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...Society, Friendship, and Love Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 ` =O U T )h & h 5 C bestowed upon man, 0, had I the wings of a dove How soon would I taste you again! My sorrows I then... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...brighter days.4 It is obvious, too, that when Cowper writes in his verses on Alexander Selkirk — I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own, he is thinking more of himself than of the ostensible subject of the poem. It is in this same poem,... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow 'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. l am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
 | William Harris Elson - Reading (Elementary) - 1923 - 100 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. "I am out of humanity's reach, 1 must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. "Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report... | |
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Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone ; Never hear the sweet music of speech, — I start... 
