 But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave,...  1914 and Other Poems - Pagina 13di Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 63 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1917 - 434 pagine
...Sweet wine of youth ; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age ; and those who would have been. Their sons, they...ways again ; And we have come into our heritage.' If the fortune of his country had not disturbed his plans, it is more than probable that Rupert Brooke... | |
 | 1918 - 550 pagine
...life of the nation : — They brought us for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Fain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. —(Rupert Brooke's "The Dead.") This war has led to the extinguishing of the old animosities and the... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1917 - 428 pagine
...Their names now ring of death and the splendour of arms, and their poetry is ended and made complete. Blow, bugles, blow ! They brought us for our dearth...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. The whimperings of the minor poets, the sad little men whose souls were sick, are heard no more ; but... | |
 | 1915 - 830 pagine
...will acknowledge, as he does in his sonnet, that They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, Licked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back,...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. Equally consonant with our deepest feelings are some lines written by James Russell Lowell and recited... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1915 - 258 pagine
...Dead ! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old But dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold, Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. We have reaped the fruits of the past, we are struggling through the present ; only those now young... | |
 | 1916 - 396 pagine
...Sweet wine of youth ; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age ; and those who would have been, Their sons, they...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. It would be misleading, perhaps, to leave Brooke's poetry with the echo of this solemn note. No understanding... | |
 | Mary C. Sturgeon - 1916 - 344 pagine
...Sweet wine of youth ; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age ; and those who would have been, Their sons, they...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. Before that renunciation one can only stand with bowed head, realizing perhaps more clearly than the... | |
 | Dixon Scott - 1916 - 344 pagine
...Sweet wine of youth ; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene That men call age ; and those who would have been Their sons, they...our ways again, And we have come into our heritage. That series of sonnets seems to me to sum up all that is best in our present persuasion. Those who... | |
 | 1916 - 812 pagine
...King's, we will think of them as '• the rich dead." We will acknowledge, as he does in his sonnet, that They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. Equally consonant with our deepest feelings are some lines written by James Russell Lowell and recited... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pagine
...bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. The most important event in recent literary history is the so-called Irish movement, or Celtic Renaissance.... | |
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