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" Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride — I come to shed them at their side. "
Narrative and elegiac poems - Page 219
by Matthew Arnold - 1869
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...peace of spiritual assurance as something for which there can be no compensation. In his own words : Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. This elegiac note of regret and longing for peace...
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...without a haven, "still bent to make some port he knows not where," or of a traveler without a home, Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head. Most unendurably, "We mortal millions live alone." We were all once a piece of the continent, but it...
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Discourse: Essay on English and American Literature

John W. Crawford - 1978 - 216 pages
...the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling (New York, lgl4), p. gg. ARNOLO'S RELEVANCY TO THE TWENTlETH CENTURY Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless...nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth l wait forlorn. To the person unfamiliar with Matthew Arnold, these lines from "Stanzas from the Grand...
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The Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980

LeRoy Panek - 1981 - 308 pages
...to Smiley's People, LeCarre' implies these lines from Arnold's "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse": Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless...rest my head, Like these, on earth, I wait forlorn People do not, though, have to moulder among monkish crypts for LeCarre/has another alternative, again...
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865, Volume 3

Joseph Frank - 1986 - 420 pages
...ferocious irony." He is caught, like Matthew Arnold's traveler in "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse," "Wandering between two worlds, one dead, / The other powerless to be born, / With nowhere yet to rest [his] head,"6 in search of a new ideal to replace the old European one in which, like the entire highly...
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Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

Gillian Beer - 1989 - 224 pages
...Present seems little other than an inconsiderable Film dividing the Past and the Future?' (p. 240). Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.19 Each of these verbal echoes is concerned with thresholds of perception: that is, with the...
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The Death of Industrial Civilization: The Limits to Economic Growth and the ...

Joel Jay Kassiola - 1990 - 320 pages
...between social paradigms, and between comforting stable value systems in a social limbo when he lamented: Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...rest my head. Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. 44 How similar are the limits-to-growth critics of industrialism, its values and way of life! They...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...be your foe! I seek these anchorites, not in ruth, To curse and to deny your truth; (1. 75—78) 32 . @ . (1. 85-90) 33 But — if you cannot give us ease — Last of the race of them who grieve Here leave...
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Culture and Anarchy

Matthew Arnold - 1994 - 258 pages
..."Dover Beach") in "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (1855): Xll Matthew Arnold: A Brief Sketch ... as, on some far northern strand. Thinking of his own...powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head . . . The 1853 collection, followed by reprintings in 1854 and 1857 and a new selection in 1855, was...
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The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions

David Palumbo-Liu - 1995 - 316 pages
...expression of his hopelessness over the impotence to which melancholy stoicism reduces us (DeLaura, 20): Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...world deride — I come to shed them at their side. In "Grande Chartreuse," Arnold poetically considers and rejects various historical attitudes: Christian...
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