 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,...  Selected Poems - Page 296by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...will go through it with unbandaged eyes, taste the whole of it, fare like his peers the heroes of old, 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,... | |
 | 1890 - 492 pages
...not a bolder departure from use and wont for him f Why dwell on, why extend the " black minute ? " " For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minutes at end ; And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...and Art. xvii. Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old ; Bear the hrnnt, in a minnte pay glad life's arrears Ot pain, darkness, and cold. Prospice. It 's wiser heing... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1891 - 446 pages
...the sentiment which it parodies is identical with that expressed in these words of Prospice, — ... in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. as thou pratest, 't is plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1891 - 352 pages
...the sentiment which it parodies is identical with that expressed in these words of Prospice, — ... in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. as thou pratest, 't is plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1892 - 302 pages
...Browning, I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of...pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. He had a brother who was equally distinguished, and I could tell you many stories of him. The most... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 pages
...! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of...pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minutes at end, And the elements' rage,... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of...pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. i December Thirty-first. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 pages
...! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of...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,... | |
 | Franklin Carter - 1892 - 404 pages
..."Prospice," " I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, 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 life's glad arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold." THE FINAL TRIBUTE. " There is a stream whose waves... | |
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