 Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 931895Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ;...rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know. XII. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign : I will be patient and proud, and soberly... | |
 | 1890 - 680 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ;...may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know." If the Almighty ever whispered in the ears of mortal men, He did into those of Lessing and Browning.... | |
 | Henry Scott Holland, William Smyth Rockstro, Otto Goldschmidt - 1891 - 526 pages
...bear ; and doubts are slow to clear ; Each sufferer has his say ; his tale of the weal or woe ; But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear :...rest may reason and welcome ! Tis we musicians know ! " * 1 Abt Vogler ' by Robert Browning. APPENDIX I. Copy of a letter to (he Editor of " Biografiskt... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 586 pages
...to bear and doubt is hard to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe ; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ;...rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.' " But there comes a voice from the laboratory : " "Tis we chemists that know"; and from the field:... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear. Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : tis we musicians know."1 And side by side with the poetry that grasps the truth in immediate intuition, there is also... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear ; Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ;...rest may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians know. December Eleventh. Cease from anger at the fates Which thwart themselves so madly. Live and learn,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1892 - 72 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear ; Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and the woe; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The...may reason, and welcome : 'tis we musicians know." When life and art become " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " ; when the vigor and spontaneity... | |
 | Mrs. Russell Barrington - 1892 - 248 pages
...to bear, And doubt is slow to clear ; Each snfferer says his say, His scheme of weal and woe : But God has a few of us Whom He whispers in the ear :...rest may reason and welcome ; 'Tis we musicians know. BOBBBT BBOWnma. THE ancestors of the Prevost family were Huguenots. George and Lena's grandfather had... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pages
...to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ;...rest may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians know. XII. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign : I will be patient and proud, and soberly... | |
 | 1892 - 960 pages
...to bear and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : Bnt God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ;...may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians know." It sec-ins to us that any poetry which is to console the ordinary man at the times when he most needs... | |
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