 You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace. Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth,...  Complete Works - Page xxvby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...furrowed face. His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, hisbearingillat ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power...will to shine, of art to please. You, whose smart pen bucked up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain ; Reckless, so it could... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...understood That, to be greatly good, AH is the use. TOM TAYLOR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (From "THE LONDON PENCIL ") You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, Hisgarbuncouth, hisbraringill at case, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...soil, the first American. JAKES RUSSELL LOWELL. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* FOULLY ASSASSINATED APRIL 14, 1865. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shamblinglimb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pages
...very weel ; He wants noan o' th' bonnet, thae foo ! " EDWIN WACGH. ILtncdn. FIRST PUBLISHED IN PUNCH. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hail', His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...soil, the first American. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* FOULLY ASSASSINATED APRIL 14, 1865. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, H is length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 434 pages
...welt'-complacent British sneer, His length ol shambling limb, liU furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hand*, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease. His lack ol all we prize a« debonair. Of power or will to shine, of art to please, — You, whose smart pen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 pages
...Hartford, Mobile Bay, August, 1 :-ii I . HH BROWXELL. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOULLY ASSASSINATED APRIL 14, 1865. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain ;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 pages
...US Flag-ship Hartford, Mobile Bay, HH BBOWNELL. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOULLY ASSASSINATED APRIL 14, 1865. You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his uiikempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1880 - 402 pages
...Lincoln, pictured Britannia laying immortelles upon his bier with humble confession of past wrong : " You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You,...self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limbs, his furrowed face. His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His gait uncouth,... | |
 | 1881 - 520 pages
...Atticus were he ? ALEXANDER POPE. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 229 Abraham Lincoln. [First published in Punch.] YOU lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad lor the self-complacent British sneer His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled... | |
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