Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. 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... Studies in Modernism - Page 206by Alfred Fawkes - 1913 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...the key to its making : mankind is not going back but forward, and what has been shall be. For — 1 Not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...the light ; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly 1 But westward, look, the land is bright ! ' AKT. X. — Recueil des Traites et Conventions conclus... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1880 - 174 pages
...painful inch to gain, Far back, thro' creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. 21 IDEM LATINE. Ne timide hos questus ' Nil prosunt,' finge, ' labores ; Vanam... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...tedious inch to gain, Far back thro' creek 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 climbs slowly, how slowly, And Westward, look, the land is bright ! BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS.— CHAP. II. WE take... | |
 | American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...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,...how slowly, But westward look, the land Is bright.'' There is no weakness in his longer poems. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, which was the first of these... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But Westward, look the land is bright. A NATION'S PEAYEE. FIRST NATIONAL CELEBRATION DURING THE WAR. JULY 4TH, '61. GOD of our fathers, now... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1864 - 418 pages
...smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by Eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But Westward, look the land is bright. A NATION'S PKAYER. F1UST NATIONAL CELEBRATION DURING THE WAR, JULY 4TH, '61. GOD of our fathers, now... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...inch to gain, Far back, through creeks, and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 8 & 6>s P- M- WHITHER. 's KTorfts foliate Mm. WE shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...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,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH CLOUGH. SYMBOLS OF VICTORY. YELLOW leaves on the ash-tree, Soft glory in the air, And the streaming... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...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,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH dough. CLXXVL THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. E more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...creeks, and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 392 8 & 6's PM WHITTIER. {Han's Kforfts tolloto ifni. WE shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the... | |
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