For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun... The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 328edited by - 1913 - 1023 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1909 - 544 pages
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| 1902 - 642 pages
...the key to its making : mankind is not going back but forward, and what has been shall be. For — 1 Not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...the light ; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly 1 But westward, look, the land is bright ! ' AKT. X. — Recueil des Traites et Conventions conclus... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1880 - 176 pages
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, thro' creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
| 1953 - 604 pages
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| 1879 - 674 pages
...lines, quoted in the Life and Letters of Lord ¿facaulay, second edition, 1378, vol. i. chap, iv.4— " For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem...gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comas silent, flooding in, the main." JATDÏE. Krulie«. THE "LAM) OF OREEN GINGER ' AT НГЬЬ. (5«ь... | |
| 1852 - 590 pages
...For while the tired waves vainly breaking, Seem here no tedious inch to gain, Far back thro' creek and inlets making Comes, silent flooding in, the main....comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slowly, how slowly, And Westward, look, the land is bright ! BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS.— CHAP. II. WE take... | |
| 1875 - 782 pages
...smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for yon, possess the field. " Jor while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly, But westward look, the land Is bright.'' There is no weakness in his longer poems. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, which was the first of these... | |
| John Henry Hayward - 1863 - 410 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But Westward, look the land is bright. A NATION'S PEAYEE. FIRST NATIONAL CELEBRATION DURING THE WAR. JULY 4TH, '61. GOD of our fathers, now... | |
| John Henry Hayward - 1864 - 418 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by Eastern windows only, When daylight comes,...how slowly, But Westward, look the land is bright. A NATION'S PKAYER. F1UST NATIONAL CELEBRATION DURING THE WAR, JULY 4TH, '61. GOD of our fathers, now... | |
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