 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
 | 1916 - 414 pagine
...Cher and the 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... | |
 | Edward Eyre Hunt - 1916 - 426 pagine
...the ^Egean. I have wondered since if he was then composing the sonnet he called " Peace "-1 " Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, 1 This sonnet is one of five which originally appeared in New Numbers and may be found in The Collected... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 240 pagine
...cleanness leaping, Glad from a 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 emptiness of love!" The demoralization attending the present war is as appalling as the physical ruin that it has wrought,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 pagine
...long watch you would keep; And I should sleep, and I should sleep I NINETEEN-FOURTEEN I — PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...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 emptiness... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 490 pagine
...long watch you would keep; And I should sleep, and I should sleep! NINETEEN-FOURTEEN I — PEACE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, 30 THE NEW POETRY Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary; Leave the sick hearts that honor... | |
 | Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Charles S. Macfarland - 1917 - 208 pagine
...it with us, and with all our fellow-believers in the church ? Can we say with Rupert Brooke : 'Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. Such is the mood in which millions of the soldiers of the nations are facing the demands of our day.... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pagine
...he begins characteristically : Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, To turn . . . glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love. You see what a hold this early hatred of false love keeps on a man of fastidious delicacy like Brooke.... | |
 | Charles Lister - 1917 - 294 pagine
...again he expresses regret for the Middlesex Yeomanry and its Colonel. But he was glad to be off. Now God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And...With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power . . . These are the words of one of the band of new Argonauts — for so we must think of them —... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 pagine
...has begun, And yet birds chatter and hurry And throng in the elm's gloom Because an owl goes home. Glad from a 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 emptiness... | |
 | Lloyd R. Morris - 1917 - 248 pagine
...flood of battle, when he rejoiced in the re-birth of honor and courage and faith and for the passing of "half-men and their dirty songs and dreary, and all the little emptiness of love," I think that he spoke for all the writers of the world—for those of the United States as well as... | |
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