 | 1893 - 298 pages
...Where the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs, Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks,...in the storm. Hardly ourselves we fought through, Stripped, without friends, as we are. Friends, companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks:...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks:...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks:...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks:...we fought through, Stripp'd, without friends, as we arc. Friends, companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. Cut thou would'st not alone... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 pages
...Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks : f- i Whom in our party we bring? Whom we have left in the...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone 5 Be saved, my father ! alone 4' Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 544 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...the gaunt and taciturn host Stands on the threshold, the wind Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks...companions, and train, The avalanche swept from our side. But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 194 pages
...Shaking his thin white hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Onr storm-beat figures, and asks : Whom ijti our p.arty we bring ? Whom we have left in the snow...in the storm. Hardly ourselves we fought through, 120 Stripp'd, without friends, as we are. Friends, companions, and train, The avalanche swept from... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1897 - 90 pages
...hairs — Holds his lantern to scan Our storm-beat figures, and asks : Whom in our party we bring ? 115 Sadly we answer : We bring Only ourselves ! we lost...in the storm. Hardly ourselves we fought through, 120 Stripp'd, without friends, as we are. Friends, companions, and train, The avalanche swept from... | |
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Sternly compress'd, we strain on, On - and at nightfall at last Come to the end of our way, To the lonely inn 'mid the rocks... 
