 Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match the mountains and the sea. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth ; The smack and tang of elemental things; The rectitude and patience of the cliff; The good-will of the rain that loves...  Modern American Poetry - Pagina 51editat de - 1921 - 406 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1928 - 480 pagini
...could have been written of Mark Keppel as they were of Lincoln, for he, too, was a "man of the people": "The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things. The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | 1900 - 848 pagini
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pagini
...serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, everchanglng face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was In blm; the red earth: The smack and tang... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 pagini
...prophecy, Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1915 - 220 pagini
...serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, ever-changing face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth. The smack and tang... | |
 | 1900 - 616 pagini
...superbly poetical lines expressing the characteristics of the great captain in nature- terms:— " The color of the ground was In him, the red earth; The tang and odor of the primal things; The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | 1900 - 76 pagini
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 pagini
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1902 - 184 pagini
...gathered up as it were into the great President, the great man of the people, to make him what he was : " The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The tang and color of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks ; The gladness of the... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 782 pagini
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things, The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
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