 Life is a game the soul can play With fewer pieces than men say. Only to grow as the grass grows, Prating not of joys or woes ; To burn as the steady hearth-fire burns ; To shine as the star can shine, Or only as the mote of dust that turns Darkling and...  Poems - Page 20by Edward Rowland Sill - 1887 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dolf Wyllarde - 1918 - 320 pages
...sat up in bed with a gasp. A Penndragon had been born under her roof while she slept. CHAPTER XVII "Life is a game the soul can play With fewer pieces than men say." EDWARD ROLAND STILL. "SHE is very ill," said Miss Johns under her breath to the nurse. "She is very... | |
 | 1884 - 980 pages
...future as a writer of poetry. We copy out a few lines from a striking poem entitled " Field Notes " : " Life is a game the soul can play With fewer pieces...Prating not of joys or woes ; To burn as the steady he:jrth-fire bums ; To shine as the star can shine, Or only as the mote of dust that turns Darkling... | |
 | 1909 - 434 pages
...tree and shrub, the joy in birds and song; to allow great, calm nature to teach you for a time — " Only to grow as the grass grows — " Prating not of joys or woe — " This old world we are living in, Is mighty hard to beat; \Ve get a thorn with every rose;... | |
 | Kathleen Van Nuys - 2006 - 685 pages
...and over again that night, 'A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things he possesseth' and 'Life is a game the soul can play with fewer pieces than men say'." "During the second pastorate of Dr. JB Ferguson at Hopewell, he conducted the wedding ceremony for... | |
 | 1904 - 786 pages
...mode of returning to nature, has only fairly begun in America. We shall see more and more of it, for "Life is a game the soul can play With fewer pieces than men say." What is best of all here is the healthful open-air life. People spend their leisure outdoors, on lawns... | |
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