 Above the lowly plants it towers, The fennel, with its yellow flowers, And in an earlier age than ours Was gifted with the wondrous powers, Lost vision to restore. It gave new strength, and fearless mood ; And gladiators, fierce and rude, Mingled it in...  Ballads and Other Poems - Page 122by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Arnold Bromfield - 1856 - 736 pages
...powers Lost vision to restore ; It gave new strength and fearless mood, And gladiators, fierce und rude, Mingled it in their daily food ; And he who battled and subdued The wreath of Fennel wore. ' t?l. F. vulgäre, Gœrtn. Common Fennel. " Leaves biternate, leaflets... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...flowers ; And in an earlier age than ours, Was gifted with the wondrous powers, Lost vision to restore. It gave new strength and fearless mood ; And gladiators,...The leaves that give it bitterness, Nor prize the colour'd waters less : For m thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give. And he who... | |
 | Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1857 - 352 pages
...keep his word, and fell at once into the deep slumber of one thoroughly worn out. CHAPTER XVIII. " Then in life's goblet freely press The leaves that give it bitterness, ' Nor prize the coloured waters less ; For in thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1857 - 444 pages
...along the dripping streets, and the rain pattering loudly on the broken window panes. CHAPTER XX. " Then in life's goblet freely press The leaves that give it bitterness ; Nor prize the colour'd waters less, For in thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Lady Caroline Catharine Wilkinson - 1858 - 506 pages
...to restore. It gave men strength, and fearless mood, And gladiators fierce and rude Mingled it with their daily food, And he who battled and subdued,...The leaves that give it bitterness, Nor prize the coloured water less, For in thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give. And he who... | |
 | Ernest Richard Seymour - 1858 - 296 pages
...Emmy, he wears the weeds, at the instance of your prayers he may wear the fennel- wreath8 also." * " It gave new strength and fearless mood : And gladiators...their daily food : And he who battled and subdued The wreath of fennel wore." Longfellow, The Gollet of Life. Thus ended all Christina's schemes to bring... | |
 | James Paul - 1858 - 264 pages
...ours, The fennel, with its yellow flowers, Was gifted with the wondrous powers, Lost vision to restore. It gave new strength, and fearless mood, And gladiators, fierce and rude, Mingled it in their daily food. Then in life's goblet freely press The leaves that give it bitterness ; For in the darkness and distress... | |
 | E. R. S. - 1858 - 290 pages
... -/A SKETCH AUTHOR OP THE. tfURATE Of HOLV^ CROSS " Then in life's goblet freely press The leaves that give it bitterness, Nor prize the coloured waters less, For in thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give. And he who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...flowers, And in an earlier age than ours Was gifted with the wondrous powers, Lost vision to restore. It gave new strength, and fearless mood ; And gladiators,...The leaves that give it bitterness, Nor prize the coloured waters less, For in thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give ! And he who... | |
 | 1859 - 364 pages
...to the extraordinary effects of plants. Speaking of fennell, Longfellow says, — " It gave new life and fearless mood, And gladiators fierce and rude,...food ; And he who battled and subdued, A wreath of fennell wore."1 Again, — " And in an earlier age than ours, Was gifted with the wondrous powers,... | |
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