And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night And love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. There is no help for these things ; none to mend, And none to mar ; not all... The Influence of Baudelaire in France and England - Seite 223von Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes - 1913 - 300 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1870 - 784 Seiten
...elusive skies. Still the foiled earnest ear is deaf, and blind Are still the eluded eyes. And again: There is no help for these things ; none to mend,...friend, Will make death clear, or make life durable. But it will be objected this is another kind of doubt. This is not the tortuous returning from belief... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1884 - 724 Seiten
...she, a sad and second prey, compel Into the footless places once more trod, And shadows hot from hell. And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No...to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night I And love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. ( There is no help for t icse things; none to mend,... | |
| Duchess - 1893 - 408 Seiten
...only Garden. With a long low cry, she runs to him, and flings herself into his arms. GHAPTER XXIX. "Not all our songs, O friend, Will make death clear, or make life durable." "Time that made us, and will slay us, Laughing at love in thee and me." FOR a minute there is dead... | |
| 1900 - 354 Seiten
...the death of Baudelaire there are two lines which seem to sum up the plaint of the old pessimism — "Not all our songs, O friend, will make death clear or make life durable." In the honest daylight, with God's sun on the hillsides, what mere idle singing this seems to a man... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 296 Seiten
...sad and second prey, compel (Into the footless places once more trod, And shadows hot from helL XVI. And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No...to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night ^.nd love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. There is no help for these things ; none to mend.... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 Seiten
...she, a sad and second prey, compel Into the footless places once more trod, And shadows hot from hell. And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No...bosom. There is no help for these things ; none to mmd, And none to mar; not all our songs, O friend, Will make death clear or make life durable. Howbeit... | |
| Gilbert Parker - 1913 - 510 Seiten
...conquer unrest: "And now, no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light The spirit sick with perfume and sweet night, And Love's...things, none to mend and none to mar; Not all our songs, oh, friend, can make Death clear or make Life durable; But still with rose and ivy and wild vine, And... | |
| Gilbert Parker - 1913 - 510 Seiten
...this dust of thine, At least I fill a place where white dreams dwell, And wreathe an unseen shrine." "'And Love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom....help for these things, none to mend and none to mar. . . .'" A sob rose in her throat. "Oh, the beauty of it, the beauty and the misery and the despair... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1913 - 1212 Seiten
...when she had slept the last sleep of her life as it was, Swinburne's wonderful lines on Baudelaire : " There is no help for these things, none to mend and none to mar; Not all our songs, oh friend, can make death clear Or make life durable. . . ." "'There is no help for these things,'"... | |
| Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1913 - 1090 Seiten
...when she had slept the last sleep of her Ufe as it was, Swinburne's wonderful lines on Baudelaire : " There is no help for these things, none to mend and none to mar; Not all our songs, oh friend, can make death clear Or make life durable. . . ." '"There is no help for these tilings,'"... | |
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