“A Lady with a Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.”
Santa Filomena, st. 10 (1858).
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American poet 1807–1882Related quotes
Address to the Women's Canadian Club, Montreal, Quebec, March 26, 1958
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.
Book XV, 50, in his account of Subrius Flavus’ passing thought of assassinating Nero while the emperor sang on stage.
Variant translation: "but desire of escape, foe to all great enterprises, held him back."
Annals (117)
“Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!”
Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 3 (1842).
“I'm not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers.”
Sleeper (1973)
Jahangir’s India
Source: quoted in K.S. Lal, The Mughal Harem (1988), 12
“Yet these shall perish and understand,
For God has pity on this great land.”
Who Goes Home? (1914)
Context: In the city set upon slime and loam,
They cry in their Parliament, "Who goes home?"
And there comes no answer in arch or dome,
For none in the city of graves goes home.
Yet these shall perish and understand,
For God has pity on this great land.
“Who in life’s battle firm doth stand
Shall bear hope’s tender blossoms
Into the silent land!”
The Silent Land, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).