And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end,... Gateway - Page 191908Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| P. F. FITZGERALD - 1882 - 220 pages
...once, and for one only. So to be the man and leave the artist."—Robert Browning. " Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained— The reward of it all. But sudden the worse turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, and the elements rage;... | |
| 1883 - 410 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,... | |
| Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
| Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...must go. For the iourney is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! I should hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like... | |
| Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
| Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last"! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
| Robert Browning - 1885 - 150 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
| Robert Browning - 1885 - 152 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...best and the last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...and in his own person to chauut that magnificent war song of death, Proipicc — "'Fear death? .... I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more The best and the last ! . . . . O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thec again, And with God be the rest ! ' " The CHAIRMAN... | |
| Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Mätzner - 1885 - 688 pages
...John 1, 1.). The journey is done and the summit attained, and the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all (R. BROWNING, PW II. 133.). What s here to do? (MARL., Jew of M. 1, 2.) There's nobody else to kill,... | |
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