No task is ill where hand and brain And skill and strength have equal gain, And each shall each in honor hold, And simple manhood outweigh gold.
Still bearing up thy lofty brow, In the steadfast strength of truth, In manhood sealing well the vow And promise of thy youth.
Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us, Stoops the strong manhood of our souls so low, That Mammon's lure or Party's wile can win us To silence now?
When Peace brings Freedom in her train, Let happy lips his songs rehearse; His life is now his noblest strain, His manhood better than his verse!
And never in the hamlet's bound Was lack of sturdy manhood found, And never failed the kindred good Of brave and helpful womanhood.
To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand!
The deeds by martial manhood wrought, The lofty energies of thought, The fire of poesy, These have but frail and fading honors; thine Shall Time unto Eternity consign.
For ruth and chivalry only slept, His Saxon manhoodthe yeoman kept; Quicker or slower, the same blood ran In the Cavalier and the Puritan.
But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true; Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
Blooming girl andmanhood gray, Autumn in the arms of May!
There was the human chattel Its manhood taking; There, in each dark, bronze statue, A soul was waking!
Left for tortures long and slow Youths like him must undergo, Who their pride of manhood test, Lacking water, food, and rest.
Whole families were reared to vigorous manhood on it.
Charles Le Moyne had a family of eleven sons, of whom ten grew to manhood and became figures of prominence in the later history of New France.
Better that your boy should be taken from you in the flush of early manhood than that he should grow up to fall a hopeless victim to the curse of a great city.
Rise up and in a body of Christian manhood and womanhood slay the monster of hellish iniquity.
The years began to hurry back, the innocent pleasure to fade, and in its place the passion of manhood came with overwhelming power, baffling and mocking me.
The boy-child begins with a cigarette; in youth or manhood he drifts into cigars and pipes; later on, if he should be unfortunate enough once to try the experiment of inhaling, he reverts to his first love.
Well, Leonard, this is the first time thou hast shown that thou hast in thee the iron out of which true manhood is forged and shaped.
I felt that you, had fate so granted, might have been all to my manhood which youth only saw through the delusion of its golden mists.
The first bloom of youth was gone, but enough of youth still remained to soften the lapse of years, and to leave to manhood the attractions which charm the eye.
He proved a valuable adjunct to Crimmins; rank was waived in the stables, and a sincere regard sprang up between master and man, based on the fundamental qualities of real manhood and a mutual passion for horse-flesh.
But the first flush of his manhood had gone; the cream had been stolen.
Born as the tears stood in his eyes, and, man as he was, he could not keep up; nor did he shame his manhood by denying them.
It affords St. Paul an opportunity of falling back on the general principle, that the measure of Christian strength and full-grown manhood is the readiness to bear the weaknesses of others.
It was only because He was essentially and eternally 'God' that He could, in our manhood and as the reward of His human obedience, be exalted to divine sovereignty and be 'over all.
Whereas there was a fall at the very root of our humanity; and the fall was repeated and reiterated and renewed, and the development of our manhood was tainted and spoiled.
The dry little whisp of manhoodhad some spark of life in him, for he said: "In their beds, the cowardly hounds!
Wetherford, altogether admirable, seemed to have regained his manhood as he stood in the door of the tent confronting the ranger.
The substantial and fatal change was in the degree of simple average manhoodamong the free.
As the rights of hospitality were, however, considered sacred among them, this little departure from the dignity of manhood excited no audible comment.
Heyward was also nigh, supporting himself against a tree, and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue.
He was altogether a child in the ways of the world, having spent his youth and earlymanhood in abstracted study, and his maturity in the solitude of these hills.
He had possessed in his youth a very dear friend, with whom his education had associated him, and who in his early manhood had been his chief intimate.
I cannot make thee out--unless it be Thou art moonstruck, and maudlin-mindedness At times seize thee betraying thymanhood thus!
Bring flowers for the youthful throng, Of variegated glow, And twine of them a gaudy wreath Around each childish brow.
His youth and early manhood was spent in mechanical pursuits and in the improvement of his mind by a desultory course of reading, and in perfecting himself in the knowledge of the Latin language.
Contrasted with a youth so bright My manhood seems one dreary night, A chilling, cheerless night, like those Which over Arctic regions close.
Oh, I see," said the captain, and he did see a man who had the nerve and manhood to demand that proper respect be shown to the name of the Prophet, whom he loved and honored.
I shall not attempt to speak of the activities of his matured life, his splendid manhood and noble, spotless character.
When thou wert a child, Jacopo, tenderness for thee tempted me to acts of weakness: I trembled lest thy manhood might bring upon me pain and repentance.
Should it be so, I trust the recruit will have the manhood not to quit his colors.
If there is manhood in my arms there is childlessness and sorrow at the heart," was the reply.
But a part can represent the whole; and "flesh" is the part most antithetical to the Divine Nature, with which here Manhood is collocated and in a sense contrasted.
The real manhood is shown in the strength of restraint, not the weakness of yielding to the impulse of the moment.
We can only push a human being down the stairs of manhoodto the level of a parasite.
There has been no serious change in the manhood per se of man.
And the mind will seize then upon the seriousness of reality just as the matured youth responds to the stern realities of life and manhood responsibilities.
I tell you it took all the manhood I had to meet that blow with a smiling face and turn the other cheek.
It was hidden behind the manhood of him, so that the casual observer would not be likely to see it; men would have failed to see it, because she was certain that with men he would not let it be seen.
I gather, though, that he is regarded as a man out here, where, I understand, manhood is measured by something besides mere appearances.
From there he had seen "Brand" Trevison ride into town, and because Trevison made an impressive figure he had watched him, instinctively aware that in the rider of the black horse was a quality of manhood that one meets rarely.
He was still in the full vigor of manhood when one day a horse of rare beauty, without bridle or caparison, came of its own accord and stopped before the gate of his palace.
It was not he, but his father, who had given the offence which drove Bahram into rebellion, and almost forced him to vindicate his manhood by challenging his detractor to a trial of strength.
Lee's Early Manhood and Career in the United States Army VI.
