2) Ninth Symphony. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Symphony. Its finale is a musical setting of Friedrich von Schiller s Ode to Joy, a hymn to the unity and freedom of humanity. 1...

3) 1856. W. H. Auden (1907-73). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989
...be,At last it is,Where even sadnessIs a form of gladness,Where Fate is Freedom,Grace and Surprise. W. H. AUDEN, "Hymn to the United Nations," music by Pablo Casals.-Text...

4) 19569. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...is Freedom,-Choose him to be your king;He shall cut pathways east and west,And fend you with his wing. ATTRIBUTION:Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist,...

5) Kolcsey, Ferenc. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to urge freedom for the serfs. His prose and poetry are somber and elaborately classical in style; they reveal a strong moral sense. Kolcsey wrote the Hungarian national...

6) 772. Boston Hymn. Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1909-14. English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor? My angel,—his name is Freedom,— Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west...

7) §14. Songs of the Soldiers. II. Poets of the Civil War I. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...who would not sing of grapes of wrath or the beauty of the lilies. They preferred instead such pieces as Three Hundred Thousand More, Marching Through Georgia, and...

8) §10. "Tristram of Lyonesse". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of Venice his own passion for freedom and love of the sea and wind, the symbols of unchained liberty; and the contrast between his hero s monologue and the Latin...

9) 189. An Elegy. Ben Jonson. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...The wither'd garlands ta'en away; His altars kept from that decay That envy wish'd, and nature fear'd: 20 And on them burn so chaste a flame, With so much loyalty's...

10) §6. Metrical experiments. XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in theme, temper and structure; one of them, Lucifer in Starlight, is among the most remarkable technical achievements of Meredith; it evokes the full epic strain...