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Edna Dean Proctor
9 quotes
“And Pole and Tartar and haughty Gaul Flee, dismayed, from the Kremlin wall.”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Troitsa's altar is divine,— St. Sergius! hear our prayers! And Kiëff, Olga's lofty shrine, The name of "The Holy" bears; But Moscow blends all rays in one,— They are the stars, and she the sun!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And there he reclines with the air of a god, As if armies and kingdoms would fall at his nod; On his brow the imperial borla is bound, Its crimson fringe drooping his temples around, And above float the plumes of that bird of the skies Which only, they say, for his diadem flies.”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your King may be powerful—a brother I'll be— But vassal to none on the land or the sea!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the chants, and the groans of the dying, as one, Went up to the Lord when the carnage was done.”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you heard how Holy Russia Is guarded, night and day, By saints gone home to the world of light, Yet watching her realm for aye?”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! what a day when all the way To Marmora's sunny sea— From Finland's snows to fields of rose— Shall Holy Russia be!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They may hang him on the gibbet; they may raise the victor's cry When they see him darkly swinging like a speck against the sky;— Ah! the dying of a hero that the right may win its way, Is but sowing seed for harvest in a warm and mellow May! Now his story shall be whispered by the firelight's evening glow, And in fields of rice and cotton when the hot noon passes slow, Till his name shall be a watchword from Missouri to the sea, And his planting find its reaping in the birthday of the Free!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Virginia Scaffold" (John Brown, December 2, 1859), st. 4
“We hail thee, we crown thee! To east and to west God keep thee the purest, the noblest, the best; While all thy domain with a people He fills As free as thy winds and as firm as thy hills!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source