 | Coventry Patmore - 1890 - 296 pagine
...conscience a blurr'd scroll ? The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height Is not so sweet and white As the most heretofore sin-spotted soul That darts to...Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight. Myriads of homes unloosen'd of home's bond, And fill'd with helpless babes and harmless women fond... | |
 | Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson - 1894 - 284 pagine
...conscience a blurr'd scroll ? The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height Is not so sweet and white As the most heretofore sin-spotted soul That darts to...Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight. Myriads of homes unloosen'd of home's bond, And fill'd with helpless babes and harmless women fond... | |
 | Basil Champneys - 1900 - 596 pagine
...heroic deaths of our soldiers: " The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height Is not so sweet and white As the most heretofore sin-spotted soul That darts to...Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight." CHAPTER XVII THE ODES Early in 1868 he had written nine Odes, which, in the April of that year, he... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pagine
...DEIGHTON PATMORE. 1823-1896. The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height Is not so sweet and white As the most heretofore sin-spotted Soul That darts to...Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight. Peace. Life is not life at all without delight. Victory in Defeat. To have nought Is to have all things... | |
 | Wilfrid Meynell - 1915 - 134 pagine
...ever our wasteful and humiliating competition! Everyone says, "Congratulate your cousin on his Cross." FROM CAPTAIN OWEN TUDOR, AT DUNKIRK, TO Miss PAULINE...himself had been pretty well pounded. All he said was : ' 'I've a bullet buried in my face, and five holes in my shoulders, and a jolly mess they made of... | |
 | Bp. Herbert Bury - 1916 - 412 pagine
...Coventry Patmore's : " The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height Is not more pure and white, Than the heretofore sin-spotted soul That darts to its delight,...Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight." I do not endorse the words literally, but still venture to believe that like so many things that have... | |
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... Confronted near. Hard days ? 'Tis what the pamper'd seek to buy With their most willing gold in weary lands. Loss and pain risk'd ? What sport but understands These for incitements ! Suddenly to die, With conscience a blurr'd scroll ? The sunshine... 