 | Robert Waters - Self-culture - 1909 - 388 pages
...Hovel and mart and palace—soon or late I knock unhidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake—if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour...or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, I answer not, and I return no more! Seek me in vain and uselessly implore; CHAPTER XXIV. THE TWO PITTS... | |
 | Cycling - 1907 - 918 pages
...I walk, I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate; If sleeping,...they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, fnd conquer every foe Save death, and those who doubt or hesitate. Condemned to failure, penury and... | |
 | 1909 - 818 pages
...walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping,...feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, A nd they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those... | |
 | 1909 - 732 pages
...by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wait ; if feasting, rise before I turn away ; it is the hour of fate And those who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death ; while those... | |
 | Edith Huntington Mason - Politicians - 1910 - 432 pages
...I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote; and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping,...uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more." The voice of the reader shook into silence as the last sounding phrase rolled from his lips, momentous... | |
 | Wallace Rice, Frances Rice - American poetry - 1910 - 466 pages
...walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping,...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more! JOHN JAMES INGALLS. PROEM SOME said, "He was strong." He was weak; For he never could sing or speak... | |
 | Readers - 1910 - 534 pages
...walk ; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping...uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more. Things Are All Right ANONYMOUS. Let the howlers howl, and the growlers growl, and the prowlers prowl,... | |
 | Shorthand - 1910 - 388 pages
...I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping,...uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more! (IS0 ivordsl N0TE.— This sonnet on Opportunity was written by the late John J. Ingalls, formerly... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 244 pages
...and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late, I knock unbidden once on every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before...uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more. The date of first appearance of this sonnet is not known to the editors. It is extracted here from... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1144 pages
...walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate ! If sleeping,...every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Commend to Failure, Penury and Woe, Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore — I answer not, and I... | |
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MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake... 
