 | 1867 - 832 pages
...him ; and who would, but that reason forbids him, yield to dogma to be rid of the burden of doubt. Not as their friend or child I speak ! But as on some...Wandering between two worlds, one dead, • The other powerless to be bom, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith,... | |
 | 1869 - 438 pages
...prevents him; and who would, but that reason forbids him, yield to dogma to be rid of the burden of doubt. Not as their friend or child I speak! But as on some far northern strand, Thinking of his own Gods, a Greck In pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone— For both were faiths and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 288 pages
...come not here to be your foe. I seek these anchorites, not hi ruth, To curse and to deny your truth ; Not as their friend or child I speak ! But as on some...Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be bom, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1878 - 396 pages
...not here to be your foe! z I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, * To curse and to deny your truth; Not as their friend, or child, I speak! * But as,...awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone— Tor both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...deep interest and importance of the religious ideas, however crude or antiquarian their expression. " Not as their friend or child I speak, — But as,...Runic stone, For both were faiths, and both are gone ! " The scepticism which pervades Arnold's poetry is not the mere disbelief in dogma which goes by... | |
 | Religion - 1891 - 750 pages
...warmth of poetry, it is the same lesson. Compare the passage standing as our text with this : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to lay my head, Like them, on earth I wait forlorn." Or with this : — " The sea of faith Was once, too,... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...come not here to be your foe ! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth : In pity and mournful awe, might stand Before some...stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. gloom : What doit thou in this living tomb ' '' Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Biography - 1886 - 696 pages
...embodies his feeling in a stanza like this, taken from his poem on " The Grand Chartreuse : " — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest rny head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to... | |
 | 1888 - 618 pages
...not here to be your foe ! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth ; ' Not as their friend, or child, I speak ! But as, on some far northern strand, Thinking' of his own pods, a Greek In pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone — For both were... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 472 pages
...seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth ; " Not as their friend, their child, I speak ! But as, on some far northern strand,...pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Eunic Stone — For both were faiths and both are gone. " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The... | |
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Not as their friend, or child, I speak ! But as, on some far northern strand, Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek In pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. 
