 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.  Matthew Arnold - Page 104by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 618 pages
...cowled monks still lingering within its walls, he says: " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, Tho other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest...head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears the world deride; I come to shed them at their side. " But if you cannot give us ease, Lust... | |
 | 1884 - 662 pages
...dejection, he embodies his feeling in a stanza like this, taken from his poem on " The Grand Chartreuse" : "Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side." Also, when in a milder mood, but one... | |
 | 1891 - 750 pages
...warmth of poetry, it is the same lesson. Compare the passage standing as our text with this : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to lay my head, Like them, on earth I wait forlorn." Or with this : — " The sea of faith Was once, too,... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...neither believe with the Carthusians nor rejoice with the so-called leaders of Western progress : — Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride, I come to shed them at their side. Oh hide me in your glooms profound Ye... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 280 pages
...mournful awe might stand Before some fallen Runic stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride — I come to shed them at their side. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound,... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pages
...neither believe with the Carthusians nor rejoice with the so-called leaders of Western progress : — Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride, I come to shed them at their side. Oh hide me in your glooms profound Ye... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 426 pages
...embodies his feeling in a stanza like this, taken from his poem on " The Grand Chartreuse : " — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side." Also, when in a milder mood, but one... | |
 | 1886 - 922 pages
...stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. gloom : What doit thou in this living tomb ' '' Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, L'ke these, on earth I wait forlorn. Tiicir faith, my tears, the world deride — I come to shed them... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 696 pages
...embodies his feeling in a stanza like this, taken from his poem on " The Grand Chartreuse : " — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest rny head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 pages
...regret as he gazes on the pale ascetic faces of the Carthusian monks, and delivers himself thus : — " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side." His vision of Christ and Christianity... | |
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