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,... The New Reservation of Time: And Other Articles Contributed to the Atlantic ... - Pagina 163di William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 213 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 490 pagine
...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 all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| 1918 - 2062 pagine
...Thank God for peace, when the great gray ships come in! Guy Wclmore Carry! [1373-1004! 1914 I — PEACE ar more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| Frank Foxcroft - 1918 - 324 pagine
...perished ere the web was spun, And children that shall never see the sun. RUTH DUFFIN. The Nation. PEACE Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| Frank Foxcroft - 1918 - 332 pagine
...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 all the little emptiness of love ! Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 206 pagine
...cleanness 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 all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| George Herbert Clarke - 1919 - 410 pagine
...cleanness 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 all the little emptiness of love! Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| Rupert Brooke - 1919 - 94 pagine
...cleanness 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 all the little emptiness of love ! Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
| Marguerite Wilkinson - 1919 - 502 pagine
...likely to return mentally to the line from Rupert Brooke's sonnet, "Peace" in which he speaks of " their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love." Certainly we have few poems of love by contemporary poets that will bear comparison with the lyrics... | |
| 1922 - 564 pagine
...should listen to Rupert Brooke, for only too often these singers deserve his characterization, as ". . . half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary And all the little emptiness of love!" Rather may we suggest a subject brought into special prominence during the last few years, one to which... | |
| Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pagine
...wage; And nobleness walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. PEACE RUPERT BROOKE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour,...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love ! Oh ! We who have known shame, we have found release there Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
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