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
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 132 pages
...hung there erect. And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang, — IX. 1 " 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. 1 The key-note of... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...seldom if ever been expressed better than it is expressed there:— Oh, our manhood's prune 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... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...seldom if ever been expressed better than it is expressed there:— Oh, owe 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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 pages
...again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, • И ; • • • ^ " Oh, our manhood's prime vigor I Ko spirit feels waste. Not a muscle is stopped in its...boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the phmge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 354 pages
...Saul, "Was the full physical life ever more beautifully sung ] " Oh ! our manhood's prime vigour t no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shook Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the... | |
| 1895 - 344 pages
...good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul ! " 18. 0 the wild joy of living, the leaping from rock up to rock. The strong...silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water ! 19. Life's gift outruns my fancies far, And drowns the dream In larger stream, As morning drinks... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1062 pages
...bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang : — " Oh, our manhood's prime vigor I No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in...unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from roBÏTïïp to rock, The strong-rending of houghs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge... | |
| Isabel E. Cohen - 1895 - 304 pages
...vigor ! — No spirit feels waste, No muscle is stopped in its playing, No sinew unbraced ; — And the wild joys of living! The leaping From rock up to rock — The rending their boughs from the palm-trees, — The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1066 pages
...bent once again to my playing, punned it unchecked, As I sang: — "Oh, our manhood's prime vigor 1 No spirit feels waste. Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor «be« unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping fnnu rock up и. 1 1 и I, , The strong... | |
| Chester Macnaghten - 1896 - 280 pages
...realise in yourselves the truth of the poet Browning's words : — " 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. ****** How good is... | |
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