 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
 | Michael C. Adams - 1990 - 200 pagine
...literature. But then the war came to make Brooke whole. He rejoiced in the call from self to sacrifice: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love!30 For a young man who had been given everything, here was a chance to return the debt. In "The... | |
 | Frank Field - 1991 - 306 pagine
...the opportunity for selfpurification. The world of Ka Cox and the Stracheys is left far behind: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! The Platonic idea of Englishness in which he had sought refuge in the era before the war was now something... | |
 | Roy Starrs - 1994 - 236 pagine
...accepted as the spokesman of his generation by expressing similar sentiments early in the war: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love!2 Significantly, whereas in this first verse of his sonnet, ironically entitled Peace, Brooke... | |
 | Theo Stemmler - 1994 - 268 pagine
...Sonette aus dem Zyklus 1914, das wir hier betrachten wollen, zur Apotheose des Krieges: Peace l Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With band made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, 44 Im Epistle lo the Romans verheißt auch Paulus jenen... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pagine
...His well-read sonnets include 1914 and The Great Lover. In his poem Peace, Rupert Brooke wrote: Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.127 tt> John lirooftf (1752-1825), a physician who became the Governor of Massachusetts, stated:... | |
 | Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf - 1997 - 432 pagine
...martyrdom, they saw themselves like Rupert Brooke's swimmers in his terrifying poem Peace (1914): Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love!15 For it was no secret that the imagery of war depicted a place which, if it was wholly elsewhere,... | |
 | 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 And...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, And...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).... | |
 | Timothy Rogers - 1997 - 538 pagine
...drab wilderness, departing to the outposts Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary. Leaving sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men,...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! For almost a decade, the studied apathy and the ingenuity of poets waiting, not very vigilantly, for... | |
 | 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...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love. It is possible to detect a certain amount of posturing in the poem, the relief of a young man with... | |
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