 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,...  A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 11a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Christopher Morley - 1918 - 344 pagine
...the willowy bathing pool on the Cam. How one recalls those white Greek bodies against the green! Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. To those who tell us England is grown old and fat and soft, there is the answer. It is no hymn of hate... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1918 - 412 pagine
...the willowy bathing pool on the Cam. How one recalls those white Greek bodies against the green! Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. To those who tell us England is grown old and fat and soft, there is the answer. It is no hymn of hate... | |
 | 1918 - 630 pagine
...when you'm old, the way gels very 'ard, an' toilsome, an' lonely." JEFFERY FARNOL Now thanked be God Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth and wakened us from sleeping." RUPERT BROOKE. ' Now in thy splendour go before us. Spirit of England, ardent eyed. Enkindle this dear... | |
 | Helen Thoburn - 1919 - 96 pagine
...GREAT COMMISSION 3. A RELIGION THAT Is TRUE TO LIFE 4. "DIVIDING UP" CHAPTER V I SEND YOU FORTH Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping 1 — Rupert Brooke. 1. Noblesse Oblige In the first days of the Great War, across the billboards of... | |
 | 1920 - 582 pagine
...according to our sowing now, will be the future. MARY A. WARD. "Now, God be thanked. Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened...power. To turn. as swimmers into cleanness leaping." RUPERT BROOKE. ' ' I am going to my Father's ; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet... | |
 | Reginald Blunt - 1921 - 360 pagine
...my novels, please. Brooke's 1914 is classic enough for me. Do you remember the first lines ? " Now God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour And...leaping Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary " " Oh yes. But didn't Donne say something like that three hundred years ago ? " "I dare say, and I... | |
 | Alice Boucher Van Doren - 1922 - 242 pagine
...apply equally well to this service of human need which has been called "war's moral equivalent." "Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour,...leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary." AW EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIAN TREATMENT Volumes might be written on the atrocities and absurdities of wizards,... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - 1922 - 244 pagine
...hour, And caught our youth and waken'd us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpen'd power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary. . . . ] Of course, it is easy to say to any such simpleton now : " Well, if you were like that, what... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - 1922 - 240 pagine
...hoiw; And caught our youth and waken'd us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpen'd power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary. . . . Of course, it is easy to say to any such simpleton now : " Well, if you were like that, what... | |
 | 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... | |
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