 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, their...  A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 12a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1917 - 434 pagine
...bugles, blow ! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...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
...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 his subjects...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
...Blow, bugles, blow ! They brought us for our dearth Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honour has come back as a king to earth, And paid his subjects...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... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 180 pagine
...bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...again; And we have come into our heritage. IV. THE DEAD These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 76 pagine
...bugles, blow ! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...; And we have come into our heritage. IV. THE DEAD These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The... | |
 | 1915 - 830 pagine
...sonnet, that They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, Licked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a King, to earth, And paid his subjects...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
...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 his subjects...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... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pagine
...lines upon The Dead, who "poured out the sweet wine of youth," profoundly stir the English heart: — Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...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.... | |
 | 1916 - 698 pagine
...pessimistic will admit. Others, like Rupert Brooke, are satisfied: Blow! bugles blow! they brought us for dearth, Holiness lacked so long, and Love and Pain;...our ways again, And we have come into our heritage. As yet we do not know the fullness of the uplifting. But there has been a passing of much materialism,... | |
 | Dixon Scott - 1916 - 344 pagine
...bugles, blow ! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...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... | |
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