 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 Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who...  The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New complete ed., with ... - Pàgina 288per Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. 6475 'The Building of the Ship' on thy fate! 6476 'Children' Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye... | |
 | James L. Abrahamson - 2000 - 228 pàgines
...God. In "The Building of the Ship," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gave poetic voice to those obligations: Sail on, O Union, strong and great! . . . Humanity...laid thy keel What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Nor did only ministers and poets praise the Union. In the judgment of historian Paul Nagel, a quarter... | |
 | Mary Louise Kete - 2000 - 308 pàgines
...Longfellow's allegory at which he collapses the three levels into one in his famous coda beginning: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! (377-81) Longfellow here refashions the conventional image of the ship of state by grafting... | |
 | David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry - 2000 - 366 pàgines
...The allusion is to the poem "The Building of the Ship" by Longfellow. Permit me to quote the stanza: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! How sublime, poignant, and uplifting; yet how profound and sobering are those words at... | |
 | 1899 - 1378 pàgines
...are looking anxiously to the future. But the end is not yet, and we can only say, with Longfellow : "Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate; Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee; Our hearts,... | |
 | Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes - 2001 - 164 pàgines
...Building of the Ship," which was used on his inaugural medals, and sent it along to Winston Churchill: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! 22 Other representations of Roosevelt as helmsman of variously the New Deal and the United... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 pàgines
...further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing io 987654321 Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! —HW Longfellow, "The Building of the Ship" Contents Preface ix INTRODUCTION I CHAPTER... | |
 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 pàgines
...the cheeks of Lincoln one day. Nicolay found that Lincoln was reading this stanza from Longfellow: Thou, too sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...strong and great. Humanity with all its fears. With all its hopes of future years. Is hanging breathless on thy fate! I shall never forget hearing Winston... | |
 | Lawrence R. Velvel - 2005 - 328 pàgines
...patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! ***** Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! ***** The hopes and fears of all the... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 pàgines
...He wrote "Building of the Ship". Few other poems were as effective in stirring patriotic emotions: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Emerson, philosopher, Transcendental leader, and believer in the supremacy of the individual,... | |
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