Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonized With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued,... Susanna Cocroft - Page 152by Growth in Silence - 1914Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1874 - 246 pages
...Longum illud tempus, quum non ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum." — CICERO, ad Att., xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw within A... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 256 pages
...illud tempus, quum non era, magis me movet, quam hoc exiffuum." — CICEBO, ad Att., xii. 18. O HAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to case the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 224 pages
...the growing life of man. So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonised With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And'what may yet be better—saw within A worthier... | |
| George Eliot - 1874 - 268 pages
...For which we struggled, failed, and agonised With widening retrospect that bred despair. Eebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw within A... | |
| Richard Travers Smith - 1876 - 256 pages
...vicious parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved, Its discords, quench'd by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air, And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobb'd religiously in yearning song That watch'd to ease the burden of the That better self shall live... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords quenched by meeting hannonies, xcalibur, And fling him far into the middle mere : Watch what t tinier self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world,... | |
| 1882 - 526 pages
...agonised With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicions parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence,...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw within A... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...hard -wrought happiness Thou wilt the world around thee bless. GEORGE ELIOT. Born 1820. Died 1881. OH, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, TlnU sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 376 pages
...persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the woild, Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw within A... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...the growing life of man. So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonised With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious...religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better — saw within A... | |
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