“Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 5
"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
“Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 5
Richard III of England (1452–1485) English monarch
Letter sent at the same time as the one above, to a family retainer, reprinted in Richard the Third (1956) http://books.google.com/books?id=dNm0JgAACAAJ&dq=Paul+Murray+Kendall+Richard+the+Third&ei=TZHDR8zXKZKIiQHf2NCpCA
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
“Ye patient fields, rejoice!
The blessing that ye pray for silently
Is come at last”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: Ye patient fields, rejoice!
The blessing that ye pray for silently
Is come at last; for ye shall no more fade,
Nor see your flow'rets droop like famishing babes
Upon your comfortless breasts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
"Daily Trials" in Companion Poets (1871).
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
St. 1
"Stanzas on Freedom" (1843)
Context: If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain,
When it works a brother's pain,
Are ye not base slaves indeed,
Slaves unworthy to be freed?