 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps will move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. Among the poets we have mentioned, and among the great majority of The Classical Commonwealth versifiers,... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 pages
...That shady city of palm-trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE WOULD OF LIGHT THEY are all gone into the world of light, And I alone sit lingering here ; Their... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1904 - 516 pages
...Christian manhood the child's heart will reappear. His poem of The Retreat closes with the wish that " When this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return." Again, in another poem, he calls childhood " An age of mysteries which he Must live twice who would... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...shady City of Palm trees! But ah! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way: — Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...urn, In that state I came, return. Henry Vaughan, & & & When a thought is too weak to be with simplicity expressed, it is a proof that it should be rejected.... | |
 | Arthur L. Clements - 1990 - 340 pages
...seventeenth-century poets may thus provide a valuable perspective. As one of these poets has written, Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move. Admittedly, forward steps may also lead to genuine progress in appreciating these poets, so, where... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...shady City of Palme trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn In that state I came return. 'Search well another world; whose studies this, / Travels in Clouds, seeks Manna, where none is' ('The... | |
 | Louise Chawla - 1994 - 260 pages
...remembrance of childhood accord with the world can serve as a guide to mature perfection. In Vaughan's words: Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn In that state I came return. 40 Vaughan and Traherne inhabited the bright ring of the Neoplatonic circle in which beginning and... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...That shady city of palm trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, 30 And when this dust falls to the um In that state I came, retum. THEY ARE ALL GONE INTO THE WORLD... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...(ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, 30 But I by backward steps would move, And when this...dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return. The Morning-watch O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowers, And shoots of glory, my soul breaks,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...That shady city of palm trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to die urn In that state I came, return. COMPOSED AROUND 1648; PUBLISHED 1650. Most of Vaughan's poems... | |
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From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In... 
