 TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy Man of Men ! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den ; — O miserable Chieftain ! where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not...  Poems, in Two Volumes, - Page 130by William Wordsworth - 1807 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow • Though fallen thyself, never to rise agah., Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers...thou hast great allies ; Thy friends are exultations, agomes, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. XX. SEPTEMBER 1, 1802. WE had a fellow-passenger who... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...where and when Wilt thou flnd patience?— Yet, die not, do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,...behind Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and skip*, — There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee : thou hast great allies.... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1861 - 314 pages
...Thee—Jiarth air, and fkies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget Thee—Thou haft great allies— Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. WORDSWORTH. XLIV. MERCY. HE quality of Mercy is not ftrain'd. It droppeth, as the gentle rain from... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...seen. (1. 23-24) BoTP; ELP; EnRP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoLF; TrGrPo To Toussaint L'Ouverture 153 of (1. 8—14) EnRP; FaBoPV; InPK; NOBE; OBNC; PoNe; PoRA; PPP; TrGrPo The Two April Mornings 154 No fountain... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 pages
...unconquerable mind" became one of the rallying calls of nineteenth century European progress. Toussaint . . . Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee;...exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.6 In the early 1790s, Toussaint had been inspired by the French revolutionary ideals of liberty,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...Chieftain! where and when Wilt thou find patience! Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,...exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. September, 1802. Near Dover Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood; And saw, while sea was calm and... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...peroration of Coleridge's "France: An Ode." Though "fallen" himself, "never to rise again," Toussaint is to "Live, and take comfort": Thou hast left behind Powers...skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That wilt forget thee; thon hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's... | |
 | Eugene Victor Debs - 1995 - 380 pages
...called you "The Beloved Disciple." Keep up your courage. You must remember Wordsworth's finest lines: "Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee,...agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind." These words are ever in my memory about you, these and another couplet I will quote in my next letter.... | |
 | S. R. Parchment - 1996 - 250 pages
...where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not ; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,...agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind." Upon investigation of the lineage of this great soul, we find that he was a pure bred Negro. The same... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 pages
...intention or not, these lines also contrast with part of Wordsworth's sonnet 'To Toussaint I.'Ouverture': 'Thou hast left behind | Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;' Poems in Two I 'olames, ed. Jared Curtis (Ithac2, NY, 1983), 161. From its beginning, 'My Baptismal... | |
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