 | 1890
...rewritten " Wanderings of Usheen," in the last lament of Oona that ends the " Countess Cathleen :" " The years like great black oxen tread the world. And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet." THE SORROWS OF SATAN.* Whenever we finish the perusal of one of Marie Corelli's novels, we feel an... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1907
...and kneels.] OONA. Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. [A sound of far-off horns seems to come from the heart of the light. The vision melts away, and the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1907
...Shadows on the deed alone. [ALEEL releases the angel and kneels.] OONA. Tell them who walk upon the floor The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. [A sound of far-off horns seems to come from the heart of the light. The vision melts away, and the... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1908 - 415 Seiten
...thy home. SHELLEY TELL them that walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. WB YEATS DEJECTION WHEREFORE to-night so full of care, My soul, revolving hopeless strife, Pointing... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1911
...floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the • i world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. [A sound of far-off horns seems to come from the heart of the light. The vision melts away, and the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1912
...and kneels.] OONA. Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. [A sound of far-off horns seems to come from the heart of the Light. The vision melts away, and the... | |
 | Cornelius Weygandt - 1913 - 314 Seiten
...wander the loud waters"; and those last lines of all, great as only the greatest linea are great, — "The years like great black oxen tread the world....on behind. And I am broken by their passing feet." It was about this time, too, that Mr. Yeats wrote that most startling of all his lines, — "And God... | |
 | Cornelius Weygandt - 1913 - 314 Seiten
...wander the loud waters"; and those last lines of all, great as only the greatest lines are great, — "The years like great black oxen tread the world. And God the herdsman goada them on behind. And I am broken by their passing feet." It was about this time, too, that Mr.... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1914
.../,<•../.] OONA. Tell them to walk upon the floor of peace, That I would die and go to her I love, The years like great black oxen tread the world, And...on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. "The Land of Heart's Desire" was first produced at the Avenue Theatre in the spring of 1894, with the... | |
 | 1914
...a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours Until old age bring the red flare again. The years like great black oxen tread the world And God the herdsman goads them on behind. Sometimes his method produces very poor and scanty lines, lines whose existence is a protest against... | |
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. 
