 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Authors, Scottish - 1895 - 94 pages
...Stevenson. In his well-known elegiac stanzas Matthew Arnold likens his own state to that of the monks : ' Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride — I come to shed them at their side.' To Stevenson, on the other hand, our Lady the Snows is a mistaken divinity, and .he place a monument... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1895 - 540 pages
...worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born,~~ With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like thes<£ 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 solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1896 - 544 pages
...faiths, and both are gone. "Wandering between two worlds, one dead Thejother powerless to be bprn^ With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth...world deride — I come to shed them at their side. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1896 - 244 pages
...deliberately defines his position : " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born,1 With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these on earth...world deride — I come to shed them at their side. " Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 546 pages
...stone ; I For both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, "\ t "lr'~> The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to...world deride : I come to shed them at their side. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowled forms, and fence... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American literature - 1898 - 910 pages
...Arnold's poetry is moral and intellectual skepticism and despondency." — E. P. Whipple. ILLUSTRATIONS. " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride : I come to shed them at their side." — The Grande Chartreuse. " At the stage of experience where men are now arrived, it is evident to... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - Belief and doubt in literature - 1898 - 160 pages
...own ardent youth he can now hold fast no more than the hoary superstitions of these Carthusian monks. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride — I come to shed them at their side. And then with impetuous appeal he turns to the monastery with its gloomy walls, and dark, dank cells... | |
 | American fiction - 1899 - 544 pages
...Runic stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. 1"Letters," II., 151. "'The Buried Life." Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...the world deride, I come to shed them at their side. This is the real cry of Arnold's heart, and it is a note we get only in his poems. And we cannot help... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1900 - 364 pages
...neither believe with the Carthusians nor rejoice with the so-called leaders of Western progress : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...the world deride, I come to shed them at their side. " Oh hide me in your glooms profound Ye solemn seats of holy pain 1 Take me cowl'd forms and fence... | |
 | Lewis Edwards Gates - Criticism - 1900 - 252 pages
...actual life. The passage is almost too trite to quote; but its extreme appositeness will justify it. " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride — I come to shed them at their side." There follows in the poem a brilliantly picturesque passage describing the joy and the splendour of... | |
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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. 
