 The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.  Lucretius - Page 168by William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help— f or It As impotently rolls as you or I. What ! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A Conscious Something... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 130 pages
...Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXII And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for it As impotently moves as you or I. I/ LXXIII With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 394 pages
...and q. 134 we get F. v. 72 : And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder, crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to IT for help — for it As impotently moves as you or I. Cf. M., ll. 145 and 2290, which probably gave F. his first idea of this quatrain.... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 54 pages
...out a Word of it. ^ *&>»' ;V And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for it As impotently moves as you or I. LXXI1I With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 336 pages
...editions : rolls [234] LXXII And that inverted Bowl they* call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotent! y movesf as you or I. LXXII I With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 478 pages
...your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently moves as you or I. With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 464 pages
...your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently moves as you or I. With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1899 - 192 pages
...Left," as in the original. LXXII. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As Impotently moves as you or I. From the beginning1 was written what shall be; Unhaltingly the Pen (writes) and... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil - 1900 - 448 pages
...your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently moves as you or I. With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1901 - 216 pages
...Piety and Toil Shall turn it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. " And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder...and die, Lift not your hands to it for help — for // As impotently rolls as you or I." ' Frederic Harrison and Herbert Spencer do but repeat the pagan... | |
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