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
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 890 pages
...above — a song of triumph at approaching death, where he writes of himself as One who never tamed his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flght better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with... | |
| American literature - 1891 - 806 pages
...to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did 1 drivel —Being— who? One who never turned his back...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... | |
| Oscar Carleton McCulloch - Criminals - 1891 - 76 pages
...; The stars have tasks — but these have none." — Wordsworth. 10. H&&reSS REV. MYRON W. REED. " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." " The town's true Master, if the town but knew ! " * * * >;« * * * " This man walked about and took... | |
| Sir Henry Jones - Christian poetry, English - 1891 - 386 pages
...wane, as the shades of night gathered round him. In the latest of all his poems, he still speaks of " 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,... | |
| American fiction - 1909 - 646 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...forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep... | |
| National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1892 - 518 pages
...sweet sane, hopeful, helpful, strong. Truly he was, in word which he loved to quote and think on, — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." ADDRESS OF RABBI HENRY BERKOWITZ. It does appear to me an anomaly that I should be called to speak... | |
| Hugh Price Hughes - Christian life and character - 1892 - 234 pages
...both of the Church and of the State as dross and refuse in comparison with it. THE CHRISTIAN HOPE. " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." BROWNING. THE CHRISTIAN HOPE. " I saw a new heaven and a new earth." — REV. xxi. I. THAT was the... | |
| Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...sense, inspires the rest, Pressing them all into its service. May Seventh. ROBERT BROWNING, born 1812. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. May Eighth. And I shall behold Thee, face to face, O God, and in Thy light retrace How in all I loved... | |
| National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - Charities - 1892 - 528 pages
...sweet sane, hopeful, helpful, strong. Truly he was, in word which he loved to quote and think on, — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held we fall to rise, are battled to fight better, sleep to wake." ADDRESS OF RABBI HENRY BERKOWITZ. It does appear to me an... | |
| English periodicals - 1892 - 886 pages
...a great mission, or more fitly embody a sublime faith in the continuance of the soul's existence ? One who never turned his back, but marched breast...worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise again ; are baffled, to fight better, Sleep, to wake ! No ! At noonday, in the bustle of man's worktime,... | |
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