 But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave,...  1914 and Other Poems - Pagina 13di Rupert Brooke - 1915 - 63 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Agnes Maude Royden - 1925 - 172 pagine
...almost of irony, have their immortal truth. It is always true when the young begin to grow up that — "Honour has come back as a king to earth, And paid...our ways again, And we have come into our heritage." That seemed dramatically true in 1914. It does not seem quite so true of that particular year 3 now... | |
 | Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1925 - 484 pagine
...bugles, blow! They brought us for our dearth, Holiness lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honor had come back, as a king to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. RUPERT BROOKE IN January the two Yale men made their first war flights on the Spider Web patrol. When... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - 1926 - 330 pagine
...age ; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Blow, bugles, blow 1 They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The... | |
 | David Morton - 1926 - 92 pagine
...bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. I would end this discussion on the note with which it began. Poems in the sonnet form, as in other... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pagine
...serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. — Rupert Brooke THE DEAD n These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 pagine
...Blow, bugles, blow ! They brought us for our dearth, Holiness lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. PEACE RUPERT BROOKE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and... | |
 | 1918 - 846 pagine
...forlorn hope, but it is not difficult to conceive of an ultimate catastrophe met to the murmuring of: Honour has come back, as a King, to earth, And paid...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. Compared to expression such as this, compared, let us say, to the austere anguish of the Eroica, painting... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1918 - 428 pagine
...bugles, blow ! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage." We have indeed come into our heritage. The noble dead, the rich dead, have consecrated it for us, have... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 pagine
...they gave, their immortality. Holiness, lacked so long, and love, and pain. Honor has come back, as king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage." Brooke's poem is the equivalent of innumerable public park statues and such sites as the Tomb of the... | |
 | Cecil D. Eby - 1987 - 308 pagine
...they have rediscovered lost verities. Because of the war, according to the poem's concluding lines, Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. 76 In a 1912 notebook Brooke had started a poem with the line "And I am come into my heritage," which... | |
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