Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. Matthew Arnold - Page 104by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
| Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 pages
...characteristic perhaps of all of them, has given of himself tells well enough the story of the age, — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless...born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these 011 earth I wait forlorn." And yet the forlornness of such a mood is always brightened by the persistent... | |
| 1872 - 862 pages
...аз ho gazes on the pale ascetic faces of the Carthusian monks, and delivers himself thus : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...born. With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on ciirth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the worM deride; I come to shed them at their aide."... | |
| 1896 - 854 pages
...to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn: Their faith, my tears, the world deride, I come to shed them at your side. There yet perhaps may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage,... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...In his well-known elegiac stauzas Matthew Arnold likens his own state to that of the monks : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head. Like theso on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride, — I come to shed them at... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...of the day may be described and summed up in these four lines from " The Grande Chartreuse " : — Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. For him, Christianity is practically dead. Christ has reigned, but his empire is now broken. As Obermann... | |
| 1867 - 832 pages
...faiths and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, • The other powerless to be bom, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. There may, perhaps, yet dawn an age... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...between their disappearance and some hoped for palingenesis, that move him to this mournful strain : " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side. • •»•**« There yet, perhaps,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone— For both were faiths, and both are gone ! Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound Ye... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 578 pages
...their faith with ' these, last of the people who believe,' but only to shed his tears with them. ' Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.' He cannot throw himself forward into... | |
| 1877 - 292 pages
...mournful awe might stand Before some fallen runic stone, — For both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side. O, hide me in your gloom profound,... | |
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