 | 1915 - 632 pagine
...imagery perfectly answering to the spiritual beauty. Between the opening of the first sonnet — ' Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,' — and the last line of the fifth — ' 111 hearts at peace, under an English heaven ' — the whole splendour... | |
 | 1916 - 986 pagine
...reborn 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary. And... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 346 pagine
...Did I 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary ; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 380 pagine
...weep . . . 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary ; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 76 pagine
...AND GABRIEL 52 THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH 55 GRANTCHESTER THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER 59 1914 I. PEACE Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And... | |
 | 1915 - 796 pagine
...And 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 192 pagine
...falling light, and, white with dew, Whisper, and weep; and creep to you. Good sleep to you! 1914 I. Peace Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 240 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And... | |
 | 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,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary,... | |
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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... 
