 twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear . . . But I've a rendezvous with Death...  Modern American Poetry - Pagina 352a cura di - 1921 - 406 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1918 - 746 pagine
...lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breathIt may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. In another of the "Last Poems" he wrote:— Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life... | |
 | 1918 - 692 pagine
...cents. I have a rendezvous with beath When Spring brings back blue days and fair. * * * * "But I have a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous." Personally the prize poem is the one by James Norman Hall on "The Cricketers of Flanders." He was in... | |
 | Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences - 1914 - 552 pagine
...already become a classic, and its closing lines are prophetic of what he expected his end would be: "... I've a rendezvous with Death, At midnight in some...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous." 1. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF STATEN ISLAND. These PROCEEDINGS were printed... | |
 | Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences - 1914 - 782 pagine
...blossoms fill the air — I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair. . . . God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. AH JUNIPERUS COM MUNIS ON LONG ISLAND AND STATEN ISLAND1 This is a concise account of the former and... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 pagine
...hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows, 't were better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down,...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. The themes that appealed most strongly at first to our contemporary verse writers were the heroism... | |
 | Alan Seeger - 1916 - 232 pagine
...me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breath — It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. 144 SIDNEY, in whom the heyday of romance Came to its precious and most perfect flower, Whether you... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1916 - 336 pagine
...scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow flowers appear. God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. — Alan Seeger. (Killed in battle at Belloy-en-Santerre, July, 1916.) THE MOTHER ODT of the bitter,... | |
 | 1916 - 1008 pagine
...scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow flowers appear. God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed...pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. * (Killed in lattle at Belloy-en-Santerre, July, 1916). THE CREATIVE MYSTERY BY WELFBID L. BANDELL... | |
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