From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. The American Church Monthly - Página 1101918Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster - 1888 - 358 páginas
...the more likely is he to be saddened by the glib comments of the crowd. CHAPTER XXVII. AT THE LAST. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may beThat no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 344 páginas
...and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
| 1891 - 900 páginas
...and Ballads " find such a passionate and powerful expression as is shown in verses like these : — From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be. That no life lasts for ever, That dead men rise up never. That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.... | |
| 1891 - 660 páginas
...fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be. That no life lasts for ever, That dead men rise up never. That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. In what I call the second period of Mr. Swinburne's poetry we come with some suddenness upon a remarkable... | |
| Johannes Jørgensen - 1892 - 524 páginas
...and in the loneliness of my attic I could utter only one prayer, that of Swinburne to Persephone : From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no man lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somehow safe to... | |
| William James Dawson - 1892 - 350 páginas
...death chant, its confession of failure, is still heard in the song of the modern poet, who sings : " From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods there be, That no life lives forever, That dear! men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds... | |
| 1910 - 404 páginas
...haunting melody combine to produce an effect of utter sadness almost beyond the reach of expression. ' From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' The following stanza from ' A Forsaken Garden ' is an even better example of what I mean : ' All are at... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 642 páginas
...and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light; Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 608 páginas
...and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light; Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 652 páginas
...regretful V; Sighs, and with eyes forgetful . Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, I From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light; Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
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