 No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water,...  New Outlook - Page 3241897Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 918 pages
...embraced. Oh, the wild joys of living — the leaping from rock np to rock, The strong rending of bonghs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear . . . How good is man's life, the mere living. — BROWNING. Enjoyment of life... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang, — IX. ' Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang, — IX. ' Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang,— IX. 1 Oh, our manhood's prime vigour! No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the... | |
 | Edward Newenham Hoare - 1894 - 410 pages
...boy, and yet man enough to appreciate a man's strength and freedom. " Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir tree, the cool silver shock Of a plunge in a pool's living water ! " So the traveller felt, and... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 514 pages
...the world." atmosphere of our civilization, comes with a delicious flavor of the antique world. " O our manhood's prime vigor ! no spirit feels waste,...muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. How good in man's life the mere living, how fit to employ The heart and the soul and the senses forever... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 pages
...young poet beguiling the furious spirit in the mighty Saul : — "Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys ofliving I the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool... | |
 | 1917 - 538 pages
...pleasures of an active life. It is thus he sings: "Oh! the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock: The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, The cool silver shock Of the plunge in the pool's living water, The hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion Is couched in his... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 424 pages
...hung there erect. And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang : — IX. " Oh, our manhood's prime vigor ! No spirit feels waste,...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 1070 pages
...still hung there erect. And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang: — " Oh, our manhood's prime vigor ! No spirit feels waste,...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is conched in his lair. And the meal, the... | |
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