But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free. Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come when his task of fame is wrought; Come with her laurel-leaf... The Southern literary messenger - Page 2471842Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 844 pages
...described the coming of death to the hero than in this passage ? — " Come in her crowning hour, and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...were nigh, To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas."... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 506 pages
...Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of...in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry Which told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods... | |
 | Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...; Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood bought ; Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome... | |
 | 1827 - 496 pages
...Fame is wrought— Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris ! with the storied... | |
 | 1827 - 500 pages
...Fame is wrought — Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind from woods of palm. And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris ! with the storied... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1827 - 76 pages
...is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh 14 MARCO BOZZARIS. To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods of palm, And orange... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 432 pages
...fame is wrought— Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men: Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land; Thy summons welcome as... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prison'd men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of a brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 pages
...is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning hour — and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris ! with the storied... | |
 | Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 pages
...fame is wrought— Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning hour—and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome...world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of halm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas. Bozzaris ! with the storied... | |
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