 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 էջ
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far bark, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main, And not by eastern windows... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1895 - 380 էջ
...that I quote it to you at once. He draws his figure from the ocean, with its waves and its tide : " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." You see the picture which is in those words — a stretch of sea-shore beach, with the waves breaking... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1895 - 382 էջ
...that I quote it to you at once. He draws his figure from the ocean, with its waves and its tide : " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." You see the picture which is in those words — a stretch of sea-shore beach, with the waves breaking... | |
 | 1895 - 672 էջ
...the wounds are vain ; The enemy shrinks not. nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. For not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front the sun elimbs slow, how slowlyl But westward look, the land is bright." A MESSAGE FROM THE EAST BY Miss FRANCES... | |
 | 1896 - 532 էջ
...this nothing-done costs me. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH [1819-1861'] 693 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH SAY not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. THE STREAM OF LIFE O STREAM descending to the sea, Thy mossy banks between, The flowerets blow, the... | |
 | Philip Stafford Moxom - 1896 - 428 էջ
...dupes, fears may be liars. It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the flyers, And but for you possess the field. " For while the...in, the main. " And not by eastern windows only When morning comes, comes in the light ; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But, westward, look !... | |
 | John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 304 էջ
...have been, they remain." If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And but for...breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, thro creek and inlet making, Comes silent, flooding in. the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1896 - 394 էջ
...the relation between final success and the failures which precede it that I quote it to you: . . . " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." The noisy waves are failures, but the great silent tide is a success. The waves are borne upon the... | |
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For while the tired waves, vainly breaking Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 
