 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
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow - 2002 - 356 pagine
...there is a deeper layer of faith in the permanence of nature and of man's ties with the earth: I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an...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... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pagine
...rest! Love is best! ROBERT BROWNING ENGLISH (1812-1889) In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" i Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an...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... | |
 | Michael Millgate - 2006 - 329 pagine
...more than forty years before resurrecting it in the second year of the Great War (LW, 82-3, 408). Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an...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... | |
 | Claire Tomalin - 2007 - 536 pagine
...his memory of walking in Cornwall after getting the news of the defeat of the French in 1870. Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an...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... | |
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