...and fretful, With lips but half regetful 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...

...Proserpine,—that pleasance where the dead years and the dead dreams lie forgotten and the dreamer is at * ' " From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...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....

...takes possession of most men and women, here finds the most perfect expression it has ever received. "From too much love of living, From hope and fear...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." It...

...upon St. Paul's aspirations for immortality, and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To 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 ! There...

...and the recognition of the supposed vanity of life, which brings them personally no happiness : — From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...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....

...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...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....

...upon St. Paul's aspirations for immortality, and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To 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! There...

...counsel to-night, dear; believe only in the moment and forget the ultimate burden of consciousness. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...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." Aspasia...

...Swinburne's 'The Garden of Proserpine' (1866), in which the gods are thanked 'That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea' (lines 85-8). 'Know then thyself. . . Alexander Pope: Pope's An Essay on .Man (17324), ii. 1-2. 'Love...

...night." It contains some of Swinburne's most quoted lines, asserting a pre-Christian Roman vision: From too much love of living, From hope and fear set...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.15...