 | 1869 - 580 pages
...powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, pn earth I wait forlorn. Theur faith, my tears, the world deride ; ' I come to shed them at your side." In Mr. Morris's lines — " So let me sing of names remembered, , Because they, living... | |
 | William Morton Payne - English poetry - 1907 - 404 pages
...come 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...world deride — I come to shed them at their side." And there are probably no verses of Arnold more frequently quoted than those from the second "Obermann,"... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1907 - 690 pages
...Carthusians, that speak to him of the mediaeval centuries of simple faith, he pictures himself as " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...the world deride — I come to shed them at their side."1 Yet we must not think of Arnold's poetry as a mere wail of regret or outburst of despair. On... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901 - 1909 - 496 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...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... | |
 | Arthur Rogers - Bible - 1909 - 294 pages
...destination. He visits the Carthusian Monastery on the Grande Chartreuse. "Waiting between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere...world deride — I come to shed them at their side." Then, after a little, he goes on. "Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb;... | |
 | John Collins Jackson - Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 - 1910 - 178 pages
...something yet to come — he cannot undertake to say what, and thus he utters his lachrymose complaint : "Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride ; I come to shed them at their side." "Achilles ponders in his tent; The kings of modern thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content,... | |
 | Alfred Austin - Poetry - 1910 - 276 pages
...prosewriter, on the thoughts and sentiments of his time. Now, what do we find him saying ? Listen ! Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...My tears, the world deride. I come to shed them at your side. There yet perhaps may dawn an age, More fortunate alas ! than we, Which without hardness... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...Wandering between two worlds, one The other powerless to be born, "With nowhere yet to rest my head, Ijike th herself Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain ! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...deny your truth ; Not as their friend, or child, I speak ! But as, on some far northern strand, So fore him, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. Beneath him, go Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain 1 Take me, cowled forms, and fence... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...; Not as their friend, or child, I speak t But as, on some far northern strand, 80 Thinking of bis s of heaven drowning the deep, And how my feet recrost...that I tonch'd The chapel-doors at dawn I know, and 90 Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain I Take me, cowled forms, and fence... | |
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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. 
