 Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though dynasties pass. Yonder a maid and...  A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 80a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pagine
...know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" ii Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass : Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1924 - 394 pagine
...In our own likeness, on the edge of it. Rudyard Kipling. ccxv1 IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the, heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | 1924 - 132 pagine
...with tkee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms. — JER. li. 20. ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass : Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1924 - 392 pagine
...our own likeness, on the edge of it. Rudyard Kipling. CCXVI IN TIME OF " THE BREAKING OF NATIONS " ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass ; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Robert Graves - 1925 - 298 pagine
...even in the time of Jeremiah's prophesied " Breaking of Nations," there is comfort in the sight of : " Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as thej- stalk." The Shropshire Lad spends his Sunday mornings cynically lying beside his lass on Bredon... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1925 - 856 pagine
...lust of power. 1915. IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" 511 IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS"1 I ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass ; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 378 pagine
...the others were ranked above, Whom during her life I thought nothing of." In Time of "The breaking o ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 704 pagine
...You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Wilfrid Ewart - 1934 - 348 pagine
...stanzas seems to epitomise that which is changeless in Hardy's peasantry and in our own chaotic time. Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass ; Yet this will go onward the same... | |
 | Henry Stanley Bennett - 1937 - 400 pagine
...poem, In Time of" The Breaking of Nations ", tells us of his fundamental place in the scheme of things: Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and noda Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this... | |
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