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,... A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 11a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1916 - 986 pagine
...out of the experience of the present war and at the cost of his life, has the right to be heard. Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary. And all the little emptiness... | |
| Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 380 pagine
.... . . Was it a vision ? — Did I wake or sleep ? Charles Hanson Towne NINETEEN-FOURTEEN PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...old and cold and weary ; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
| Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 346 pagine
...wake or sleep ? Charles Hanson Toivne [17] POETRY: A Magazine of Verse NINETEEN-FOURTEEN PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...old and cold and weary ; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1915 - 652 pagine
...release — wakened from sleeping, glad to turn " from a world grown old and cold and weary," to " Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love ! " To rebuke, he added this high earnestness of the significance of the war: " Blow, bugles, blow!... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1917 - 428 pagine
...England's — indeed of Europe's — young intellectuals when he thanked God for having turned him from ' the sick hearts that honour could not move, and half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary." " So these poetic novelties, driven out of Europe, enjoyed a brief but luxuriant growth in Chicago... | |
| 1915 - 796 pagine
...laughter learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
| Percy Angier Hurd, Archibald Hurd - 1915 - 348 pagine
...mutual concern. A great charge is laid upon us, and, remembering our past, we dare not fail in it. " Now God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour,...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." INDEX AE, lines from the sonnet " Empire," xiii Adaptation of methods, policy, 265 Admiralty, Board... | |
| 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...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love 1 Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| 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, And...Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love ! Oh ! we, who have... | |
| William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 240 pagine
...of the experience of the present war and at the cost of his life, has the right to be heard. " Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness... | |
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