For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun... A Year Book of Famous Lyrics: Selections from the British and American Poets ... - Страница 265под редакцията на - 1901 - 392 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1887 - 168 страници
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly ! But westward; look, the land is bright. CLOUGH. 77 ~STT~THAT voice did on my spirit fail, TV Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost ? "'Tis better... | |
| Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 344 страници
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers... | |
| James Fraser (Bp. of Manchester) - 1887 - 332 страници
...If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase ere now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field....slowly, But westward, look ! the land is bright." And in this spirit, in this day, when as in that of the prophet, " the light is not clear nor da/k... | |
| 1899 - 796 страници
...round on his knees, pushed up his spectacles, and quoted the famous lines, very solemnly and slowly : And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. " I see," Taffy nodded. " And— I say, that's jolly. Who wrote it ? " " A man I used to see in the... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 страници
...labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, they remain. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. AH ClODOH. 20 May. It is impossible for that man to de spair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1888 - 482 страници
...faints not, nor faileth, If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 1849 INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES. PAQK A Highland inn among the western hills 884 A youth and maid upon... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 страници
...remain. " If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars, It may be, in yon smoke concealed Your comrades chased e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the...slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright." I do not think that any competent judge who really studies Clough's Remains will doubt for a moment... | |
| William Andrews - 1888 - 318 страници
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern'windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front, the sun climbs slow, how... | |
| Edna Lyall - 1888 - 480 страници
...struggle nought availeth. The labour and the wounds are vain, Ami aa things have been they remain. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward look, the land is light. When daylight comes,... | |
| Thomas Kelly Cheyne - 1888 - 232 страници
...makes for real progress. Youthful optimism does less violence to facts than the pessimism of old age. " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." 1 But why did Elijah travel so far to give vent to his despondency ? Were there no secluded spots in... | |
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