 A CHILD, Curious and innocent, Slips from his Nurse, and rejoicing Loses himself in the Fair. Thro' the jostle and din Wandering, he revels, Dreaming, desiring, possessing ; Till, of a sudden Tired and afraid, he beholds The sordid assemblage Just as...  The Quarterly Review - Page 352edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | 1921 - 864 pages
...glad tidings of death to come. Man's life is, for him, but a child's escape among the shows of a fair: Till at last, Tired of experience he turns To the...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. And in most of his poems on this theme, it seems to be the peace of the grave he desires, not an immortality... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 204 pages
...swaying, And spring's fresh voices call, Come ! let us go a-maying, And bless the God of all ! 1878 XXVIII To RLS A CHILD, Curious and innocent, Slips from his...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. 1876 XXIX l^ATE-a- Whimsies, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world's a ghost that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 600 pages
...it were deep over me,' That seems a direct transference from ' Ich wiinsch' er schosse mich todt.' But he has applied this manner to modern things —...vigils, the hopes, the nurses, the doctors, both AS. as they are and as they seem. Peruse the impression of an awakening after chloroform, the portrait... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1897 - 332 pages
...of Walt Whitman in his passion for living, his acceptance of the hour when man, Tired of experience, turns To the friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. His special " note," in the earlier work particularly, is a manly Bohemianism, a refreshingly reckless... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1898 - 286 pages
...swaying, And spring's fresh voices call, Come ! let us go a-maying, And bless the God of all 1 1878 XXIX To RLS A CHILD, Curious and innocent, Slips from his...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. 1876 XXX KATE-A-WHIMSIES, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world 'sa ghost that... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1900 - 282 pages
...fresh voices call, Come ! let us go a-maying, And bless the God of all! 1878 XXIX A CHILD, <To RLS Curious and innocent, Slips from his Nurse, and rejoicing...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. XXX KATE-A-WHIMSIES, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world's a ghost that gleams—... | |
 | John Murray Moore - 1901 - 162 pages
...in the spirit and almost in the manner of Matthew Arnold nearly as hopeless a lay: — Thus, through the world— Seeing, and feeling, and knowing— Goes...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. Are these despairing cries likely to aid anyone to fight the battle of life, much less to give the... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1905 - 284 pages
...swaying, And spring's fresh voices call, Come ! let us go a-maying, And bless the God of all ! 1878 XXIX To RLS A CHILD, Curious and innocent, Slips from his...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. 1876 XXX KATE-A-WHIMSIES, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world 'sa ghost that... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1908 - 88 pages
...swaying, And spring's fresh voices call, Come ! let us go a-maying, And bless the God of all! XXIX To RLS A CHILD, •* *• Curious and innocent, Slips...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. K ATE-A-WHIMSIES, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world's a ghost that gleams —... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 274 pages
...With a sob to his Nurse (Lighting at last on him), And in her motherly bosom Cries him to sleep. Thusj thro' the World, Seeing and feeling and knowing, Goes...friendly and comforting breast Of the old nurse, Death. 1876 > XXX KATE- A- WHIMSIES, John-a-Dreams, Still debating, still delay, And the world 'sa ghost that... | |
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