 With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.  Poems - Page 277by Matthew Arnold - 1884 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...the depths of thyself! MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart reside?, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul...hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Q 4 Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can he through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1854 - 334 pages
...planned. I almost wish you were off, and that little Lilia was safe with me .at Abergeale," CHAPTER XIV. "With aching hands and bleeding feet, "We dig and...of light return, All we have built do we discern." AHNOHD. Two years more passed away. It was Christmas time—six years after the death of Sir Hugh Willoughby.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1857 - 344 pages
...To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask, how she view'd thy... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 324 pages
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'.l. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...of light return, All we have built do we discern. MATTHEW ABNoLD. KATHLEEN'S childhood had been solitary, since the disparity of years between them had... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...finds himself, loses his misery." MATTHEW ARNOLD. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built'do we discern. Then, when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost bask in Nature's eye, Ask... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 442 pages
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 448 pages
...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then when the clouds... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 448 pages
...dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have...Then when the clouds are off the soul, When thou dost look in Nature's eye, Ask how she viewed thy self-control, Thy struggling tasked morality — Nature... | |
 | Nahor Augustus Staples - 1870 - 282 pages
...had suddenly emerged from the clouds, and, on the summit, heaven with all its stars lay over him. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done j Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern." IV. MILWAUKEE AND THE ARMY.... | |
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