WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. All's Love Yet All's Law - Page 35by James Logan Gordon - 1914 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
| Stephen Graham - 1926 - 290 pages
...and with it, not contradicting it, Omar Khayyam and also O ' Shaughnessy 's We are the magic-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams Wandering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams and then certain delicious lines, unbraced in origin, which Algernon Blackwood is fond of quoting:... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 378 pages
...is one of the immortal classics of our verse." • From "The Music-Makers" WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting bv desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the... | |
| 1927 - 364 pages
...unfold The myrrh and frankincense and gold. SUSAN L. MITCHELL ** LXXI ** ODE WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone...gleams : Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out... | |
| Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...several short lyrics, especially that glowing and stirring defense of poetry and the poet beginning We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams. O'Shaughnessy had an extraordinary command of metrical resources, and was declared by Francis Palgrave,... | |
| Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - 1928 - 568 pages
...fire laden. (f ) Cities drowned in olden time. (/) Ah, Moon of my Delight, that knows no wane. (0) We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE 1. Blow, west wind by the lonely mound And murmur, summer streams; There is... | |
| Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington - 1928 - 396 pages
...as error or believed as inspired, but it is no matter for easy tolerance — We are the music-makers And we are the dreamers of dreams Wandering by lone...gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. Reality and Mysticism. But a defence before the scientists may not be a defence... | |
| Campbell Gillon - 1991 - 236 pages
...agree with the lines written by Arthur O'Shaughnessy over a hundred years ago: We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone...gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. People with the reins of power in their hands tend not to believe that, and consider... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...maiden-lily (1. 1-3) AWP; PBWP ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881) Ode 1 We are the music-makers. CMoP; FaBoWP; HAP; HelP; LiTA; MoP; MOS; NAAL-2;...enchantment. It is like the doveneck animated by (1. 1 —6) 2 With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, (1. 9-10) 3 One... | |
| Геннадий Ефимович Горелик, Виктор Яковлевич Френкель - 1994 - 216 pages
...and O'Shaughnessy: "We are the music-makers / And we are the dreamers of dreams / Wandering by the lone sea-breakers / And sitting by desolate streams..../ Yet we are the movers and shakers / Of the world for ever, it seems". (A slight misquotation shows that Bronstein wrote this from memory.) Today not... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...from his mundane occupation as herpetologist in the British Museum. From ODE WE ARE THE MUsic MAKERS. We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea -breakers, And sitting by desolate streams — World-losers and world-forsalters, On whom the pale... | |
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