 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
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 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... | |
 | 1995 - 164 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... | |
 | Timothy Rogers - 1997 - 538 pagine
...departing to the outposts Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary. Leaving sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! For almost a decade, the studied apathy and the ingenuity of poets waiting, not very vigilantly, for... | |
 | Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf - 1997 - 432 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!15 For it was no secret that the imagery of war depicted a place which, if it was wholly elsewhere,... | |
 | Christopher Innes - 1998 - 380 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. It is possible to detect a certain amount of posturing in the poem, the relief of a young man with... | |
 | Klaus Vondung - 2000 - 447 pagine
...der Analerotik, in Gesammelte Werke, vol. 10; and Fromm, Anatomy of Human Destrucnveness , 299-324. And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love!38 May we thus conclude that the fantasies of filth and cleanliness are primarily characteristic... | |
 | Linda Raine Robertson - 2003 - 520 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!4 Brooke saw action only briefly at the start of the war and died of a noncombat-related infection... | |
 | Professor Alan Kramer - 2007 - 448 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!6 Although Brooke's 'War Sonnets' immediately became popular in Britain, reflecting the mood of... | |
 | 1916 - 892 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...ruin that it has wrought, but we are none the less awed and abashed in the presence of the spiritual transformations which it is effecting in the lives... | |
 | M. D. Allen - 1991 - 244 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! (Mack, 486) TE Lawrence himself wrote at the time that "Not many dons have taken commissions — but... | |
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