For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun... Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early ... - Page 10550edited by - 1905 - 11114 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1874 - 416 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...main, And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly. But westward, look, the land... | |
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1906 - 610 pages
...retro sublapsa re/em'," But humanity at heart is infinitely and eternally optimistic, and knows better. For while the tired waves vainly breaking Seem here...and inlets making Comes silent flooding in the main. We may deline to accept the facts, but it is useless to dispute the report that since the world of... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. ' For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...main, ' And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, ; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...is more of the sea brought before our eyes than in hundreds of Mr. Swinburne's rolling lines : — ' For while the tired waves vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.' Of Mr. Swinburne's treatment of love there is no need to say much. It may be unfair to bring against... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...change was surely but imperceptibly effecting itself in the collective mind of their fellow-countrvmen. For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. Events were at hand which unmistakably showed how different was the England of 1830 from the England... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 430 pages
...surely but imperceptibly effecting itself in the collective mind of their fellow-countrymen. For, whilo the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. Events were at hand which unmistakably showed how different was the England of 1830 from the England... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 pages
...was surely but imperceptibly effecting itaelf in the collective mind of their fellow- . countrymen. For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far hack, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. Events were at hand which... | |
| Reformed Church in America. General Synod - 1877 - 624 pages
...execution were being formed ; larger, views of social and civic responsibilities grew with the years. " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes, silent, flooding in the main." The forces which produce a living literature are subtle and often hidden from contemporary observers.... | |
| William Pepper - 1877 - 64 pages
...public opinion and conviction which at last attains a power that sweeps down all opposition. " Thus, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." I should, however, but half discharge my duty to you if I stopped with this gloomy review of the present... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1879 - 396 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...-main, And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land... | |
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