 THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea ; The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee. At last our grating keels outslide, Our good boats forward swing ; And while we ride the land-locked tide, Our negroes...  In War Time, and Other Poems - Side 51af John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 152 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 sider
...wipe the weeping eyes, For suffering give the victor's prize, The crown for cross ! AT PORT ROYAL. THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on...music and of song : The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; The power to make his toiling days And poor home-comforts please ; The quaint... | |
 | 1864 - 744 sider
...his song of the Negro Boatman, at Port Royal, beautifully prefacing it : — " For dear the bondsman holds his gifts Of music and of song, The gold that kindly nature sifts Among his sands of wrong." There was a great deal of cheerful music in the song, " The Kingdom Coming,"... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1866 - 368 sider
...HERMITAGE, January 8, 1863. Louisville Sunday Democrat AT PORT ROYAL. BY JOHN GREENLE4F WHITTIER. THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on...music and of song ; The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; The power to make his toiling days And poor home-comforts please ; The quaint... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 sider
...ЧГ WEITTIEB. Tнв tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea ; The night- wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee....and of song — The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; — ' The power to make his toiling days And poor home-comforts please ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 122 sider
...tent-lights glimmer on the land, _L The ship-lights on the sea ; The night-wind smooths with drifting sani Our track on lone Tybee. At last our grating keels...music and of song : The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; The power to make his toiling days And poor home-comforts please ; The quaint... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 602 sider
...GREENLEAF WHITTIER. THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea ; The night- wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee....and of song — The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; — The power to make his toiling days And poor home- comforts please ;... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 620 sider
...OBEENLEAP 'WHITTIBR. THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea ; The night- wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee....outslide, Our good boats forward swing ; And while wo ride the land-locked tide, Our negroes row and sing. For dear the bondman holds his gifts Of music... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 sider
...wipe the weeping eyes, For suffering give the victor's prize, The crown for cross ! AT PORT ROYAL. THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on...smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee. And while we ride the land-locked tide, Our negroes row and sing. For dear the bondman holds his gifts... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 sider
...night-wind smooths with drifting sand THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, Our track on lone Tybee. And while we ride the land-locked tide, Our negroes...music and of song : The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among his sands of wrong ; The power to make his toiling days And poor home-comforts please ; The quaint... | |
 | 1869 - 310 sider
...tent-lights glimmer on the land, X The ship-lights on the sea ; The night-wind smooths with drifting san<\ Our track on lone Tybee. At last our grating keels outslide, Our good boats forward swing ; .For dear the bondman holds his gifts Of music and of song : The gold that kindly Nature sifts Among... | |
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