 | American fiction - 1899 - 544 pages
...high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire. In the "Carthusian Monastery" he feels As on some far northern strand, Thinking of his own...stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. 1"Letters," II., 151. "'The Buried Life." Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 748 pages
...divine. Like a later poet, he might have said: — Not as their friend or child I speak, But as on gome far Northern strand, Thinking of his own gods, a Greek In pity and mournful awe might stand Beside some fallen Runic stone, For both were gods, and both are gone. And surely no creed is more... | |
 | Little magazines - 1922 - 710 pages
...to be." A somber strain runs through the poetry of Matthew Arnold as the following lines illustrate: "Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to lay my head, Like them I wait on earth forlorn." Indeed, if we turn from poetry to philosophy, we shall... | |
 | Andrew Campbell Armstrong - Philosophy - 1904 - 370 pages
...years. Matthew Arnold, brooding, walks the Oxford uplands, 1 or muses at the Grande Chartreuse: — " Not as their friend, or child, I speak! But as, on...stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone." 2 Lowell visits Chartres " to give to Fancy one clear holiday," but finds himself pursued by thoughts... | |
 | Andrew Campbell Armstrong - Philosophy - 1904 - 394 pages
...years. Matthew Arnold, brooding, walks the Oxford uplands, * or muses at the Grande Chartreuse : — " Not as their friend, or child, I speak ! But as, on...stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone." 2 Lowell visits Chartres " to give to Fancy one clear holiday," but finds himself pursued by thoughts... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Readers - 1906 - 152 pages
...not here to be your foe! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth; 30 Not as their friend, or child, I speak! But as, on...mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone — 5 For both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless... | |
 | Hartford Theological Seminary - 1909 - 146 pages
...holds everything in abeyance, and will be anchored nowhere. He cannot be content, .as Matthew Arnold, wandering between — " two worlds, one dead, The...other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest his head." In this attitude the seminary is true to the traditions of Congregationalism, which, while... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - Poetry - 1909 - 422 pages
...he could share neither the soaring hope nor the passionate melancholy of the opening century. He was Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest his head. And the two greatest poets, as well as he, still offer not only, as poets always must, an... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...come not here to be your foe ! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth ; om his father's eyes arc gone. Wandering between two worlds, one The other powerless to be born, "With nowhere yet to rest... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...come not here to be your foe ! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth ; 00 Of immortality. So little knows Any, but God alone, to value right The goo So Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek In pity and mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic... | |
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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. 
