 | 1915 - 632 pagine
...imagery perfectly answering to the spiritual beauty. Between the opening of the first sonnet — ' Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,' — and the last line of the fifth — ' 111 hearts at peace, under an English heaven ' — the whole splendour... | |
 | 1916 - 986 pagine
...difficult to persuade the average man of the moral consistency of efforts for general disarmament. IV In accounting for the lack of popular response to...Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary. And all the little emptiness of love! The demoralization... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 76 pagine
...AND GABRIEL 52 THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH 55 GRANTCHESTER THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER 59 1914 I. PEACE Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 192 pagine
...falling light, and, white with dew, Whisper, and weep; and creep to you. Good sleep to you! 1914 I. Peace Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | 1916 - 666 pagine
...individuality is only given to man in order that he may devote it to the service of his generation. ' Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | Dixon Scott - 1916 - 344 pagine
...others in this same number worth remembering. I like this : — Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | 1916 - 396 pagine
...Cher and the bathing pool on the Cam. How one recalls those white Greek bodies against the green ! Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour,...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. To those who tell us England is grown old and fat and soft, there is the answer. It is no hymn of hate... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pagine
...hour, And caught our youth, and waken'd us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpen'd power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, . And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
 | Edward Eyre Hunt - 1916 - 426 pagine
...battle, in the ^Egean. I have wondered since if he was then composing the sonnet he called " Peace "-1 " Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, 1 This sonnet is one of five which originally appeared in New Numbers and may be found in The Collected... | |
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NOW, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary... 
