| Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 страници
...in disfavor with the Garrisonians since the publication of his "Building of the Ship," whose lines "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!" had been interpreted as an answer to... | |
| John J. Pullen - 1997 - 308 страници
...of the poet: 'Farewell! A long farewell to all my greatness! ' " And now another poet had written: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! It was James Pollock who put the design-concept into words. He wrote, "The medal proposed... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страници
...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... | |
| V. P. Menon - 1997 - 606 страници
...war, and may well be applied to India at this crisis : 'Thou too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great : Humanity with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate,' APPENDIX VII STATEMENT BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 16 MAY 1946 You... | |
| Mary Louise Kete - 2000 - 308 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
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