With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Poems - Página 279por Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 370 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1853 - 566 páginas
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can he through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
| lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1854 - 334 páginas
...planned. I almost wish you were off, and that little Lilia was safe with me .at Abergeale," CHAPTER XIV. "With aching hands and bleeding feet, "We dig and...of light return, All we have built do we discern." AHNOHD. Two years more passed away. It was Christmas time—six years after the death of Sir Hugh Willoughby.... | |
| Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 324 páginas
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'.l. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...of light return, All we have built do we discern. MATTHEW ABNoLD. KATHLEEN'S childhood had been solitary, since the disparity of years between them had... | |
| R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 páginas
...finds himself, loses his misery." MATTHEW ARNOLD. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built'do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 442 páginas
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 448 páginas
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 448 páginas
...dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have...Then when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost look in Nature's eye, Ask how she viewed thy self-control, Thy struggling tasked morality — Nature... | |
| Nahor Augustus Staples - 1870 - 282 páginas
...had suddenly emerged from the clouds, and, on the summit, heaven with all its stars lay over him. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done j Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern." IV. MILWAUKEE AND THE ARMY.... | |
| Poems - 1872 - 362 páginas
...mystery our soul abides, But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask how she viewed thy self-control, Thy struggling tasked morality — Nature, whose free, light, cheerful air,... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 páginas
...disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FW FACRR MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...hours of light return All we have built do we discern. MATTHRW ARNOLD. SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. O AY not, the struggle nought availeth, ^ The... | |
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