 From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.  History of English Literature - Page 291by Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1908 - 870 pages
...extant, I quoted as my favourite lines : From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Considerably... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1866 - 860 pages
...and meet her From many times and lands. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up ncver ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1866 - 370 pages
...eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...PAGE 162 : "And, paven with death, our days are roofed with night."— To VICTOR Iluao. PAGE 192 : " No life lives forever : That dead men rise up, never;...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE. PAGE 206 : "The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood."—... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Gay men - 1868 - 376 pages
...eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then... | |
 | Literature - 1918 - 966 pages
...it! I turned away with this on my lips: "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may...no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never, And even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." The Roots of the Russian Revolution By EDWARD... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1872 - 858 pages
...upon St. Paul's aspirations for immortality, and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That (load men rise up never, Thiit even tlio weariest river AVinds somewhere safe to sea... | |
 | 1872 - 838 pages
...upon St. Paul's aspirations for immortality, and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea ! There... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1873 - 380 pages
...of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Goda may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea ! There are times at which one conception is most appropriate, and times at which we may prefer the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Literary Collections - 1873 - 382 pages
...upon St. Paul's aspirations for immortality, and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea ! There... | |
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