 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pagine
...God-made-flesh does too: Were 1 come o'er again' cries Christ 'it should be this'. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Peace Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...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... | |
 | 1995 - 164 pagine
...the sky, with one arm and one eye. RUPERT BROOKE 1887-1915. Died, Greece, 21st April 1914: i Peace Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...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... | |
 | Harry Gregor Gelber - 1997 - 364 pagine
...Ethnicity in International Politics (New York, Oxford University Press, 1993) pp. 10-11,175 Fn 16. 5 Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour...Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary... "Peace" in The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1965) p. 101. 6 TS Eliot,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagine
...epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting. 2 Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. RUPERT BROOKE, (1887-1915) British poet. "Peace," 1914 and Other Poems(1915). New Numbers, no. 4 (1914).... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagine
...Grantchester' Stands the Church clock at ten to three And is there honey still for tea? 1580 'Peace' ack, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with...walks in our ways again: And we have come into our 1581 'Peace' Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long... | |
 | Christopher Innes - 1998 - 380 pagine
...imprecise. He talks of how the God of the war has "wakened us from sleeping" and caused the young 187 To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad...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... | |
 | Spencer Tucker, Laura Matysek Wood, Justin D. Murphy - 1999 - 820 pagine
...familiar refrain expressing his generation's idealistic enthusiasm for the outbreak of military conflict: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping. Brooke was on his way to Gallipoli when he became ill with blood poisoning and died on 23 April 1915;... | |
 | Klaus Vondung - 2000 - 447 pagine
..."purification." For example, the young Rupert Brooke wrote, in the euphoria of the outbreak of the war: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,...old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, 35. Cited in Silvio Vietta, ed., Lyrik des Exfrressionismus (Munich: Deutscher... | |
 | John William Miller - 1983 - 196 pagine
...the world. But there is a lust of battle, too, where great resolve can lift men to their finest hour. "Now, God be thanked. Who has matched us with His...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." Some seize upon the day, others are seized by the emergencies of thought or of action, but all rejoice... | |
 | Stanford E. Lehmberg, Thomas William Heyck - 2002 - 372 pagine
...Cambridge poet Rupert Brooke expressed the early British enthusiasm for the war in "Peace" (1914): Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour....power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. But Brooke died of blood poisoning in 1915 on his way to Gallipoli. Soldiers discovered that the conventional... | |
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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... 
