Moral Heroism

He stands before me in his royal mood, With eyes that fron the world with level light, Unquailed by hate, and lit, in Envy's spite. With the frank beauty of infantine good; His bold brow threatful only with the might Of its incumbent thoughts—an eagle brood Nursed on that crag in lofty solitude; His lip firm bent, yet stirred as with the flight Of inward smiles. His tall and upright form, From the set foot-sole to the swerveless bow To the launched thunders of oppression's storm, Yet o'er the weak and worn as lithely bends, As a green willow o'er its pale flower-friends.
Title
Moral Heroism
Alternative Title
He stands before me in his royal mood
Date
1849 published
has place of publication
The Maniac and other poems
Bibliographic Citation
George Shepard Burleigh, The Maniac: and Other Poems. (Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1849), p. 200
has identifier for expression
SS 98, M 200
Subject
Reform and Reformers
transcript
He stands before me in his royal mood,
With eyes that fron the world with level light,
Unquailed by hate, and lit, in Envy's spite.
With the frank beauty of infantine good;
His bold brow threatful only with the might
Of its incumbent thoughts—an eagle brood
Nursed on that crag in lofty solitude;
His lip firm bent, yet stirred as with the flight
Of inward smiles. His tall and upright form,
From the set foot-sole to the swerveless bow
To the launched thunders of oppression's storm,
Yet o'er the weak and worn as lithely bends,
As a green willow o'er its pale flower-friends.
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