 From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.  A First View of English Literature - Page 333by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Considerably less than thirty years were needed to convince me (even if the book had not been laid... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 370 pages
...fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 pages
...love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever ; That dead men rise up...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may be : That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. " Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light, Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...PAGE 162 : "And, paven with death, our days are roofed with night."— To VICTOR Iluao. PAGE 192 : " No life lives forever : That dead men rise up, never;...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE. PAGE 206 : "The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood."—... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 376 pages
...fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
 | 1872 - 838 pages
...a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea ! There are times at which one conception is most appropriate, and times at which we may prefer the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 380 pages
...of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Goda may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea ! There are times at which one conception is most appropriate, and times at which we may prefer the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' For that gives us, by its indefinable sound of truth, an insight into the souls of the men whom he... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 pages
...living, From fear of death set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods there be, That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river, Winds somewhere safe to sea. These lines may be simply a dramatic'expression of sentiment ; but they seem more likely to represent... | |
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