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
| Theo Stemmler - 1994 - 268 pagine
...Pain. Honour has come back, äs a king, to earth And paid his subjects with a royal wage; And Nobelness walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. (9 ff.) Diese „rarer gifts than gold" sind „Holines, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain" (10),... | |
| Ralph Melnick - 1998 - 786 pagine
...symbolized this hysteria born of desperation and the utter futility that was to meet their every effort: 188 Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage.44 Ludwig's similarly conflicted, but hopeful, thoughts of the war's effect upon civilization's... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagine
...call age; and those that would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. 1571 'The Dead' p, Shock or knock or lock 1572 'Heaven' Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond? 1573 'The Hill'... | |
| Michael Copp - 2001 - 286 pagine
...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...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. TV The Dead These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift... | |
| Stuart Rees - 2003 - 308 pagine
...prospect of enjoying serenity in old age. Here are the last six lines of the final sonnet 'Death'. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. 29 Similar sentiments, that death may provide the only sense of nobleness to emerge from otherwise... | |
| F. Pollock - 2003 - 248 pagine
...dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And pain his subjects with a royal wage; And nobleness walks...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. Rupert Brooke Dulce et decorum est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing... | |
| Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson - 2007 - 388 pagine
...was coated with a patina of old and faded traditions that he was only too happy to see rejuvenated: Honour has come back, as a king, to earth And paid...ways again; And we have come into our heritage."' As if he did not trust this reappearance, Foreign Secretary Grey often referred to "our respect and... | |
| Vermont. Free Public Library Commission - 1906 - 530 pagine
...thought of the Dead, the ideals for which they died, and the attendant uplifting of national life. "Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us for our dearth,...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage." The sonnet sequence "1914," containing "The soldier," was published but a few weeks before the author's... | |
| Arthur St. John Adcock - 1918 - 304 pagine
...so lonely and poor of old But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. . . . Blow, bugles, blow 1 They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked...our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. Rupert Brooke was almost the first of these soldier poets to give up his life in his country's service.... | |
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