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" WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire O'er the sea and to the stars I send: 'Ye who from my childhood... "
The Fall of the Curtain - Page 21
by Harold Begbie - 1901 - 410 pages
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...place. — 'Twas when the heavenly house I trod, And lay upon the breast of God." SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Heart Songs: A Book for the Gift-season

Miss E. Hedge - 1856 - 164 pages
...Heaven us bless and aid ; For my lord is a great sea-captain, And I was a fisher-maid." SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...place. — 'Twas when the heavenly house I trod, And lay upon the breast of God." SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...place. — 'Twas when the heavenly house I trod, And lay upon the breast of God." SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEABY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...personification, and so warm his reverence, that it far outpasses the limits of our sympathy and admiration. " Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...personification, and so warm his reverence, that it far outpasses the limits of our sympathy and admiration. " Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the star-lit sea. And a look...
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The Radical, Volume 1

Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 pages
...the brethren, whether it be a natural, or a supernatural light that we have seen. js SELF-DEPENDENCE. WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. SELF-DEPENDENCE. ~\ 1 7"EARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 55

1897 - 1166 pages
...to attend. Correspondence may be had with Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. Self-Dependence Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be. At the vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forward, forward, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of...
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