 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,...  The New Reservation of Time: And Other Articles Contributed to the Atlantic ... - Side 163af William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 213 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1916 - 928 sider
...The Crossing, worthy of a permanent place in American literature as an epic of early American life. To-day it is the task, the 'job,' which confronts...ruin that it has wrought, but we are none the less awed and abashed in the presence of the spiritual transformations which it is effecting in the lives... | |
 | 1916 - 892 sider
...The Crossing, worthy of a permanent place in American literature as an epic of early American life. To-day it is the task, the 'job,' which confronts...ruin that it has wrought, but we are none the less awed and abashed in the presence of the spiritual transformations which it is effecting in the lives... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 674 sider
...world grown old and cold and weary. Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half -men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love ! Oh ! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
 | John Elder - 1985 - 256 sider
...cleanness leaping Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary. And all the little emptiness of love!s Such a poem, and such an attempt at "cleanness," only makes sense for one who has embraced the... | |
 | Cecil D. Eby - 1987 - 308 sider
...cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! 75 The idea here is proto-Orwellian: war is peace because it provides youths with an opportunity to... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - 1989 - 216 sider
...cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
 | Paul Fussell - 1989 - 352 sider
...world grown old and cold and weary, L^ave the sick hearts that honor could not move, And half-men, with their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! ' That way of looking at a war would almost persuade the giver of thanks to celebrate the Central Powers... | |
 | Michael C. Adams - 1990 - 200 sider
...cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty 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 sider
...cleanness leaping. Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...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... | |
 | Paul Fussell - 1991 - 842 sider
...cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep... | |
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