WHEN vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget ? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet, — Or may the soul at once in a green plain... Littell's Living Age - Страница 4161882Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1913 - 598 страници
...hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetf ul to forget ? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long...the spray of some sweet life-fountain And cull the dew -drenched flowering amulet ? Ah ! when the wan soul in that golden air Between the scriptured petals... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1913 - 330 страници
...the graver poems. I give one example from a serious sonnet. Its melody flows like a soft stream — When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in...unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget ? Lastly, with regard to these serious poems which meet the questionings of modern life, some have... | |
| Frederick Franklin Shannon - 1915 - 214 страници
...chasm between false wealth and true. It alone answers the great questions asked in Rossetti's song: " When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in...unforgetful to forget? " Shall Peace be still a sunk stream unmet, — Or may the soul at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain... | |
| Stephen Coleridge - 1916 - 242 страници
...wonderful, and I know of no four lines that express hopelessness so complete and utter as do these : When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in...unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget ? And before passing away for the moment from writers of religious verse it is permissible to cite... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 страници
...Thy visage to mine-ambush at thy heart, Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes. THE ONE HOPE VVhen (\nd teach the unforgetful to forget ? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet, — And cull... | |
| 1916 - 792 страници
...apart Thy visage to mine ambush at thy heart, Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes. THE ONE HOPE shing part is their breeding. The whole sex are generally quick and sharp. I believe I may be allowed to s unforgottcn pain And teach the unforgetful to forget ? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,... | |
| George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 страници
...I — and I — thyself" (lo! each one saith), "And thou thyself to all eternity!" CI. THE ONE HOPE When vain desire, at last, and vain regret Go hand...forget? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet, — 5 Or may the soul at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain... | |
| Egerton Smith - 1923 - 352 страници
...And the last cowslip in the fields we see On the same day with the first corn-poppy. Or may the son! at once in a green plain Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain. (Tke ffnae of Lift, xnr and ci.) The grasses wave o'er the ruined weir, But the bridge still leads... | |
| Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 страници
...apart Thy visage to mine ambush at thy heart Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes. CI. THE ONE HOPE WHEN vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in...to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the un forgotten pain And teach the un forget ful to forget? Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 страници
...as oft we watched them there : And did these die that thou mightst bear me Death ? CI. THE ONE HOPE p unforgotteupain And teach the unforgetful to forget? Shall Peace he still a sunk streum long unmet.... | |
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