But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly! For strong the infection of our mental strife, Which, though it gives no bliss, yet spoils for rest; And we should win thee from thy own fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Sohrab and Rustum: With Other Poems - Page 72by Matthew Arnold - 1906 - 107 pagesFull view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 546 pages
...former years With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales ! But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes grow timorous, and unfixed thy powers, And thy clear aims... | |
| 1913 - 638 pages
...modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims," no " unconquerable hope " in face of the strong " infection of our mental strife, which, though it gives no bliss, yet spoils for rest " ; but in matters of faith he was ever searching, unquiet, speculating, now sitting aloof from the... | |
| John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact fear ! But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...fair life, Like us distracted and like us unblest." — The Scholar-Gipsy. " The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere To the subtle, contriving head... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1898 - 270 pages
...former years With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales ! But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes grow timorous, and unfix'd thy powers. And thy clear aims... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...former years, With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales. But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes grow timorous, and unfix'd thy powers. And thy clear aims... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...former years With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales I But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes grow timorous, and unfix'd thy powers, And thy clear aims... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 pages
...former years, With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales. But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...strife, Which, though it gives no bliss, yet spoils for icst; And we should win thee from thy own fair life, Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 356 pages
...former years With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales ! But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...rest ; And we should win thee from thy own fair life, rife — Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes grow timorous,... | |
| Algernon Gissing - 1904 - 120 pages
...ways " suggest active breezy life, and to get this in the old jovial careless way is now beyond us. " For, strong the infection of our mental strife, Which, though it gives no bliss, yet spoils for rest." But I am not aware that active, breezy life is incompatible with an imaginative view of things. Economics... | |
| 1905 - 726 pages
...in former years With dew, or listen with enchanted ears, From the dark dingles, to the nightingales, But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly ! For...yet spoils for rest ; And we should win thee from thine own fair life. Like us distracted, and like us unblest. Soon, soon thy cheer would die, Thy hopes... | |
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