 One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.  The World's Best Poetry ... - Page 3601904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1890 - 140 pages
...imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to...dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast... | |
 | 1890 - 708 pages
...shrink amazed ? So his Epilogue, his very latest word, speaks from that undaunted heart of his, of One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. The other author just quoted held that to all imaginative men there came moments when, but for religion... | |
 | 1890 - 882 pages
...Epilogue to " Asolando," published the day before his death, he thus writes his own epitaph^:— " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." OLD COUNTRY LIFE, by the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD (i voL IQS. 6d. Methuen), is a collection of various... | |
 | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) - College presidents - 1890 - 60 pages
...conscientious reformer. He was an jnspirer of youth. He was a friend of man. He was a servant of God. ' One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.' I congratulate the Northwestern university that it has enjoyed the benefit of his guiding counsels... | |
 | Literature - 1890 - 528 pages
...Rephan " he magnificently announces his faith in labor and progress. His epilogue is his epitaph : "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." The message, indeed, of Robert Browning lias been of constant encouragement, not denying the existence... | |
 | Religion - 1890 - 758 pages
...the faith that Love was stronger than Power, has left us in the Epilogue his own best epitaph : — " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. Henry S. Pancoast. PHILADELPHIA, PENN. PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY. Volume I.... | |
 | William Sharp - Authors, English - 1890 - 260 pages
...his toil, is the beauty of his dream. It was "a surpassing Spirit" that went from out our midst. " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ~" Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here ! " are the last words of this brave soul. In truth, "... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1890 - 176 pages
...you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. •• No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1890 - 588 pages
...He died, as he lived, — to quote from his last published lines, the Epilogue to * Asolando,' — ' One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' As facts in the mental history, as products of human thought, as clues to the meaning of the soul,... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 624 pages
...to tell us who wrote these verses. To quote his own words from the little volume before us, he is " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noon-day in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast... | |
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