Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,... The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ... - Page 421by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871Full view - About this book
| 1824 - 706 pages
...undivided country, from sea to sea ! And let your prayer be the inspired utterance of Longfellow. " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| 1850 - 642 pages
...could have been suggested by it. The concluding lines will find now an echo in every patriotic heart. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...her charms ! " How beautiful she is ! How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...her charms ! " How beautiful she is ! How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 258 pages
...moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Sail forth into tho sea of Hie, O gentle, loving, trusting wife. And safe from all...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...her charms ! ' How beautiful she is ! How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...bounds upon the flood. " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union, strong aud great 1 Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of...steel. Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rung, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...wave, right onward steer ! The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear ! O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...wave, right onward steer ! The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Thy comings and thy goings be ! For gentleness and...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| |