 | Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1838 - 394 pages
...characteristic perhaps of all of them, has given of himself tells well enough the story of the age, — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless...born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these 011 earth I wait forlorn." And yet the forlornness of such a mood is always brightened by the persistent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...аз ho gazes on the pale ascetic faces of the Carthusian monks, and delivers himself thus : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...born. With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on ciirth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the worM deride; I come to shed them at their aide."... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...In his well-known elegiac stauzas Matthew Arnold likens his own state to that of the monks : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head. Like theso on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride, — I come to shed them at... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...of the day may be described and summed up in these four lines from " The Grande Chartreuse " : — Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. For him, Christianity is practically dead. Christ has reigned, but his empire is now broken. As Obermann... | |
 | 1867 - 832 pages
...faiths and both are gone. 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, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. There may, perhaps, yet dawn an age... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. O hide me in your gloom profound Ye solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowled forms, and fence me... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone— For both were faiths, and both are gone ! Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound Ye... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...between their disappearance and some hoped for palingenesis, that move him to this mournful strain : " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side. • •»•**« There yet, perhaps,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 578 pages
...their faith with ' these, last of the people who believe,' but only to shed his tears with them. ' Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.' He cannot throw himself forward into... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1896 - 568 pages
...to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride — I come to shed them at their side.' 2 We have tried to present Mr. Austin's poems in a fair light ; 1 Narrative Poems, p. 142. 2 Arnold,... | |
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. 
