 The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!" The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; , They could not see the bitter...  Poems - Page 62by Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 pages
...one of the most remarkable poems of the last fifty years of American verse. THE FOOL'S PRAYER1 The royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 pages
...FOOL'S PRAYER. By EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, Poet, Professor, Editor, 1841, Connecticut; d. 1887, Ohio. THE royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; " 'Tis not by guilt... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1900 - 566 pages
...: The bravest are the tenderest, — The loving are the daring. .' ri <• // THE FOOL'S PRAYER The royal feast was done ; the king Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pages
...me pure, They tell me time is time, And only heaven mature. ilolulmtb JSili THE FOOL'S PRAYER TÏIE royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport...monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: " О Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool t " Xo pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pages
...is time, And only heaven mature. <£btoar& ilolulanb THE FOOL'S PRAYER THE royal feast was done; tbe King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to...monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: " О Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! •' No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 pages
...sport to banish care, And to his jester cried : " Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer 1 " The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool I " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the... | |
 | 1900 - 374 pages
...sport to banish care, And to his jester cried, " Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer ! " They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pages
...stood the mocking court before; They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin ho woro. He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: "O Lord, lie merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change tho heart From red with wrong to white as... | |
 | Wilmot Brookings Mitchell - 1901 - 476 pages
...publishers, from "Poems by Edward Rowland Sill," copyright, 1887, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. The royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport...voice arose : " O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 pages
...new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer 1 " s hath lain there I dread not its gloom; Where he deigned to sleep, I '11 ! " No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool: The rod must heal the... | |
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