 CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset ! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be...  Poems: Lyric, dramatic and elegiac poems - Page 73by Matthew Arnold - 1881Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 688 pages
...fancy the most thoughtful of our poets had him in his mind when he wrote them : •THE LAST WORD. Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said....how they will ; Thou art tired ; best be still. They out-talked thee, hissed thee. tore thee? Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...name, O friend ! That Being only, which hath known each man From the beginning, can THE LAST WORD. REEF into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said...how they will! Thou art tired; best be still! They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot... | |
 | 790 pages
...light.' The following verses, written we suspect in answer to Mr. Arnold's lines, beginning, ' Creep into thy narrow bed — Creep, and let no more be...all stands fast ! Thou thyself must break at last,' show that Clough thought he could discern signs of an intellectual dawn slowly breaking on the spiritual... | |
 | 1878 - 680 pages
...light.' The following verses, written we suspect in answer to Mr. Arnold's lines, beginning, ' Creep into thy narrow bed — Creep, and let no more be...all stands fast ! Thou thyself must break at last,' show that Clough thought he could discern signs of an intellectual dawn slowly breaking on the spiritual... | |
 | 1867
...future course of action V — *' Creep Into thy narrow bed, Cret-p, and let no more be said ' Tain the onset ! all stands fast ; Thou thyself must break 'at last. " Let the long contention cease ! *;.••-•• are swans, aud swann are geese Let them have it how they will ' Thou an tired -,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 400 pages
...of men. Till then her lovely eyes maintain Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. THE LAST WORD. CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said...they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still ! ' They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...maintain Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. THE LAST WORD. CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let nn more be said ! Vain thy onset ! all stands fast ;...they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still ! They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...gay, unwavering, deep disdain. THE LAST WORD. CREEP into thy narrow bed, C'reep, and let no more he said ! Vain thy onset ! all stands fast ; Thou thyself...they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still ! They out-talked thee, hissed tb.ee, tore thec. Better men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...of men. Till then her lovely eyes maintain Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. THE LAST WORD. CEBEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said...contention cease ! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Ix't them have it how they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still !. They out-talked thee, hissed thee,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 396 pages
...of men. Till then her lovely eyes maintain Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. THE LAST WORD. CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said...contention cease ! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Iiet them have it how they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still ! They out-talked thee, hissed thee,... | |
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