 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
 | 1910 - 542 pages
...nor break, nor over-reach. LXXVIII And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently rolls as you or I. LXXIX With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last... | |
 | 1910 - 524 pages
...nor break, nor over-reach. LXXVIII And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently rolls as you or I. LXXIX With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last... | |
 | 1910 - 356 pages
...wash out a Word of it. LXXII And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, i 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. LXXIII With Earth 's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last... | |
 | Frances Rice - 1910 - 74 pages
...single Seven pluck. And that inverted Ball they call the High — By which the Duffer thinks to live or die, Lift not your hands to It for help, for it As impotently froths as you or I. I sometimes think that never springs so green The Turf as where some Good Fellow... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1911 - 202 pages
...single Seven pluck. And that inverted Ball they call the High — By which the Duffer thinks to live or die, Lift not your hands to IT for help, for it As impotently froths as you or I. Yon rising Moon that leads us Home again, How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pages
...your Piety nor Wit Shall lure 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...your hands to It for help — for It As impotently moves as you or I. Poems of Sentiment and Reflection With Earth's first Clay They did .the Last Man... | |
 | John Adams - 1912 - 144 pages
...midnight by the Master of the Show. 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 rolls as you or I." True, but it is not an it to which the persecuted Psalmist is now directing his... | |
 | James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...unto him as one of his enemies. " 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." — FITZGERALD : Rubdiyat (Ixxii.). " His hidden face and iron feet Hath not man... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 pages
...wash out a Word of it. LXXII And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, 285 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. LXXIII With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last... | |
 | Herbert Bates - 1918 - 640 pages
...after life to spell; And by and by my soul returned to me, And answered, "I myself am Heaven and Hell." And that inverted bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder...your hands to it for help — for it As impotently moves as you or I. Yon rising moon that looks for us again — How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;... | |
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