From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Fraser's Magazine - Page 1521872Full view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1908 - 870 pages
...extant, I quoted as my favourite lines : From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Considerably less than thirty years were needed to convince me (even if the book had not been laid... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1866 - 370 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1866 - 860 pages
...and meet her From many times and lands. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up ncver ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. This is from Before Parting : I know... | |
| 1867 - 488 pages
...with death, our days are roofed with night."— To VICTOR Iluao. PAGE 192 : " No life lives forever : That dead men rise up, never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE. PAGE 206 : "The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood."—... | |
| 1867 - 616 pages
...condensed the entirety of his belief: "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may be : That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. " Then... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - Gay men - 1868 - 376 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1872 - 858 pages
...Newman expounds a very beautiful and touching creed, so does Comte, and possibly even Mr. Bradlangh. Let us agree to differ. Those who find it pleasant...Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That (load men rise up never, Thiit even tlio weariest river AVinds somewhere safe to sea ! There are times... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1882 - 524 pages
...great in such a passage as this : — ' From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' For that gives us, by its indefinable sound of truth, an insight into the souls of the men whom he... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. 19* Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
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