 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun...  A Year Book of Famous Lyrics: Selections from the British and American Poets ... - Seite 265herausgegeben von - 1901 - 392 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1882 - 130 Seiten
...pure. They will see that a statesman should be a pilot, but that a politician is a barnacle. WR ALGER. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH CLOUGH. 'Tis with our judgment as our watches,— none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.... | |
 | 1882 - 524 Seiten
...is more of the sea brought before our eyes than in hundreds of Mr. Swinburne's rolling lines : — ' For while the tired waves vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.' Of Mr. Swinburne's treatment of love there is no need to say much. It may be unfair to bring against... | |
 | Una Crichton (fict.name.) - 1882 - 412 Seiten
...in her brain, which, in the excitement of coming home, had been forgotten for a time. CHAPTER XXVII. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making. Comes silent, flooding in, the main. AH CLOUCH. THE new hopes which had dawned upon Ferdinand's career proved to be no delusive prospects.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1903 - 858 Seiten
...have been, things remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Official meteorologists are not wanting in scientific ambitions and achievements. It is true that Professor... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1883 - 358 Seiten
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.' There is, perhaps, no poem of equal brevity in the English language that gives us more pleasure than... | |
 | 1883 - 270 Seiten
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright. A. II. CLOUOH. SEE, THROUGH THIS AIR. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 Seiten
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. CHARLES KINGSLEY. [BaRN at Holne Vicarage, Devonshire, in 1819, and educated, partly at Helston Grammar... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1883 - 368 Seiten
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES. PAOK A Highland inn among the western hills 298 A youth and maid upon a summer... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 Seiten
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. COME HOME, COME HOME. COME home, come home, and where is home for me, Whose ship is driving o'er the... | |
 | 1881
...have been they remain If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is light. The presage of these lines we have seen partially fulfilled, and all men now know that the struggle... | |
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