 Vain Desires, And Vice, with the spoils upon him Of thee and thy beaten sires, "While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last redoubt, "To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the game at all,...  The Living Age - Page 5901921Full view - About this book
 | Louise Imogen Guiney - 1893 - 80 pages
...him Of thee and thy beaten sires, " While Kings of eternal evil The Kings Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last...fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall ! " 45 ALEXANDRIANA I AlexandrtT LAID the strewings, sweetest, on thine urn; I lowered the torch, I... | |
 | Alexander Smellie - Christian life - 1899 - 416 pages
...doom. Not a death necessary and unavoidable. " While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last redoubt." I must never allow myself to be bound by shackles of despair, and sunk in dungeons of darkness. For... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - American poetry - 1900 - 424 pages
...spoils upon him Of thee and thy beaten sires, 'While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is, with broken sabre, To rise on the last...fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall ! ' VIRGO GLORIOSA, MATER AMANTISSIMA O brighter than wild laurel The Babe bounds in her hand, The... | |
 | Adolf Wilbrandt - 1901 - 186 pages
...matters it whether man wins or loses, says his angel. The event is not in his hands. His part is but " To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the game at...fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall ! " After this, what a surprise it is to turn to the last of the three poems I have selected as striking... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1906 - 894 pages
...picturesque symbols, as in Miss Guiney's \ " While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Tliy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last redoubt...fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall ! " The imaginative pageantry which embodies high thoughts separates poetry from the bodiless phantom... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1906 - 902 pages
...picturesque symbols, as in Miss Guiney's " While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last...redoubt ; " To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the gamo at all, But fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall ! " The imaginative pageantry... | |
 | Louise Imogen Guiney - American poetry - 1909 - 208 pages
...upon him Of thee and thy beaten sires, — " While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last...fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall." The Squall WHILE all was glad, It seemed our birch-tree had, That August hour, intelligence of death... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...cloud of banners And ringleted Vain Desires, "While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last...fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall." DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO All else for use, One only for desire; Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 440 pages
...about, Thy part is with broken saber To rise on the last redoubt; 2808 Poems of Sentiment and Reflection "To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the game...fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall!" Louise Imogen Guiney [1861FAILURES THEY bear no laurels on their sunless brows, Nor aught within their... | |
 | William Dana Street - India - 1915 - 212 pages
...Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken saber To rise on the last redoubt ; "To fear no sensible failure, Nor covet the game at all, But fighting,...fighting, fighting, Die driven against the wall." Men might question his wisdom and his tact but no classmate ever questioned his courage. He was a Puritan... | |
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