And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end,... The Greater Victorian Poets - Page 106by Hugh Walker - 1895 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1902 - 902 pages
...the poem, when " the element's rage, the fiend voices that rave," dwindle and blend and change, to become " first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, OI in in soul of my soul 1 I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest 1 " There is no touch... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - 872 pages
...The heroes of old. Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,...peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, 0 thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest ! ' III. LAWRANCE EDWARD... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 790 pages
...neck. ' The strong man must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained And the barriers fall. Sudden the worst turns the best to the brave The black minute's at end.' BROWNING. Before very long some orderlies came and fetched Do'-no-who. It was touching to see the patients... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And with... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pages
...The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, tne fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...The heroes of old, A Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
| 1865 - 826 pages
...The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears, Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,...black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first, a peace ; then... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the element's rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
| R. C. J. - 1866 - 312 pages
...The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears, Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave The...black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first a peace out of... | |
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