 How long," they say, "how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, And your...  Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - Page 74by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1974Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...their places, With eyes meant for Deity ; — " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — .Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...in their places, With eyes meant for Deity ; 'How long,' they say, 'how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upwards,... | |
 | 1846 - 668 pages
...and yet how tenderly pathetic is this : — ' " How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 pages
...their places, With eyes meant for Deity ; — " How long," they say, " how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards,... | |
 | 1853 - 800 pages
...eloquently pleads the cause of your poor, oppressed children. " How Ion?, how Ion?, O cruel nntinn, Will you stand to move the world on a child's heart, — Stifle down with n nmilcd heel its palpitation, And trend onwnrd to your throne amid the nmrt Our blood .«plushes upwards,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...their places, With eyes turned on Deity; — ' How long,' they say, ' how long, O cruel nation, •w;ii yOU stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...their places, With eyes meant for Deity; — " How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity; 'How long,' they say, 'how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...angels in their places, With eyes meant for Deity,'How long/ they say, 'how long, 0 cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upwards,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 pages
...annoyed by specimens of repulsive imagery, as where the children cry ; How long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart — Stifle down with a mailed heel itt palpitation t etc. Now and then, too, we are confounded by a pure platitude, m when... | |
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