 Where was he going, this man against the sky! You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may laugh and fight and sing And of our transience here make offering To an orient Word that will not be erased, Or, save in incommunicable...  Poetry - Pagina 47a cura di - 1916Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1916 - 176 pagine
...and die More quietly thereby. Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything : That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious irritant Of increase or of want Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1916 - 950 pagine
...anything of Alden Carr, is a particularly happy charThat we may laugh and fight and sing acterization. And of our transience here make offering, To an Orient Word that will not be erased, "Songs of the Streets and Byways,"* by William Or, save in incommunicable gleams Herschell, is a collection... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1917 - 440 pagine
...wisdom and humor, and sings, " Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious irritant Of increase or of want Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1917 - 438 pagine
...wisdom and humor, and sings, " Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious irritant Of increase or of want Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1921 - 618 pagine
...and die More quietly thereby. Where was he going, this man against the sky I You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious irritant Of increase or of want Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1921 - 612 pagine
...he going, this man against the sky? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: i That we may laugh and fight and sing . (.And of our...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious irritant Of increase or of want _ Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1921 - 174 pagine
...and die More quietly thereby. Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything : That we may...offering To an orient Word that will not be erased, h Or, save in incommunicable gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic and ambitious... | |
 | Conrad Aiken - 1922 - 378 pagine
...and die More quietly thereby. Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything : That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. No tonic or ambitious irritant Of increase or of want Has made an otherwise insensate waste Of ages... | |
 | Llewellyn Jones - 1925 - 264 pagine
...the antithesis of agnosticism: Where was he going, this man against the sky ? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known. And, failing that faith, "scientific" substitutes are useless: No soft evangel of equality Safe cradled... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 pagine
...antithesis of agnosticism : "Where was he going, this man against the sky? You know not, nor do I. But this we know, if we know anything: That we may...gleams Too permanent for dreams, Be found or known." And, failing that faith, "scientific" substitutes are useless: "No soft evangel of equality Safe cradled... | |
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