 | United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 742 pages
...vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1971 - 408 pages
...vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1962 - 100 pages
...vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 pages
...no longer formal, but personal. It is as deeply felt as Adams's "Prayer," but more powerful. Blessdd sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit...Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.20 "Ash Wednesday" represents antimodern ambivalence in its most finely distilled and sublimated... | |
 | Jonathon Lazear - 1994 - 132 pages
...called sympathetic illness. I am surprised by this, but in an odd way, I'm comforted by it, too. "lessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit...falsehood Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to set still Even among these rocks. Our peace in his will And even among these rocks Sister, mother,... | |
 | A. David Moody - 1994 - 412 pages
...fourth and sixth poems: Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden . . . Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated While that anticipates The Dry Salvages, the emotion can be traced back through The Hollow Men and... | |
 | Susan S. Phillips, Patricia Benner - 1994 - 216 pages
...back and get a running start on this by taking a text from TS Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday. The text is "Teach us to care, and not to care. Teach us to sit still." Eliot qualifies as a preacher to be reckoned with in these matters because he both lived through and... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 pages
...way down I spooked a buck deer. As he turned to look at me, his antlers flared with morning light. "Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still," wrote Eliot in "Ash Wednesday." Wilderness is not only a place you go. Wilderness is what happens to... | |
 | Ed Stivender - 1995 - 236 pages
...HOUSE, INC. PUBLISHERS LITTLE ROCK To my father, Alvey Vernon Stivender, USNa view from the parish side. TEACH US TO CARE AND NOT TO CARE, TEACH US TO SIT STILL. TS Eliot, "Ash Wednesday" Acknowledgments I'd like to thank all my old classmates who surfaced since... | |
 | Ray Ashford - 1996 - 262 pages
...Pockel Full of Prayen, Ralph L. Woods ed. Peace is hallowed by its quietness war damned by its din. Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach...us to care, and not to care Teach us to sit still. — TS ELIOT "Ash -Wednesday," in The Complete Poems and Plays THE QUIET LIFE Love I see them often... | |
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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. 
