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
| Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 544 pages
...faiths, and both are gone. "Wandering between two worlds, one dead Thejother powerless to be bprn^ 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. Oh, hide me in your gloom profound,... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...deliberately defines his position : " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born,1 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. " Oh, hide me in your gloom profound,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 520 pages
...and of the Unborn. Compare, Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be bom, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. ARNOLD, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, 227 i3. when you have. " Walls I can see tumbled down,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 508 pages
...Popinjay. See Old Mortality, p. 25 f. and n. Edin., 1876. 226 14. Dead and of the Unborn. Compare, Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...rest my head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. ARNOLD, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse. 227 13. when you have. 14 Walls I can see tumbled down,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 546 pages
...stone ; I For both were faiths, and both are gone. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, "\ t "lr'~> The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to...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,... | |
| 1913 - 638 pages
...shown him by the rigorous teachers of his youth. Meantime he sought for help to endure the pain of Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest his head. And he did find help in the power of stoicism to fortify the soul against the pressure of... | |
| John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...Arnold's poetry is moral and intellectual skepticism and despondency." — E. P. Whipple. ILLUSTRATIONS. " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride : I come to shed them at their side." — The Grande Chartreuse. " At the... | |
| Richard Acland Armstrong - 1898 - 160 pages
...own ardent youth he can now hold fast no more than the hoary superstitions of these Carthusian monks. 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. And then with impetuous appeal he... | |
| 1899 - 544 pages
...Runic stone — For both were faiths, and both are gone. 1"Letters," II., 151. "'The Buried Life." Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other...head, Like these on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride, I come to shed them at their side. This is the real cry of Arnold's heart,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1900 - 364 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... | |
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