 From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.  Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Page 61by Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Considerably less than thirty years were needed to convince me (even if the book had not been laid... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 370 pages
...too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 pages
...too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up ncver ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. This is from Before Parting : I know... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 pages
...and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may be : That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. " Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light, Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...with death, our days are roofed with night."— To VICTOR Iluao. PAGE 192 : " No life lives forever : That dead men rise up, never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE. PAGE 206 : "The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood."—... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 376 pages
...too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or... | |
 | 1872 - 838 pages
...and others may prefer, in the words of a modern poet, To thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods may be, That no life lives for ever, That dead men...forcing our neighbours to share our opinions ? It is as nnphilosophical as to insist upon everybody preferring Gothic or Greek architecture, instead of taking... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1872 - 858 pages
...be, That no life lives for ever, That (load men rise up never, Thiit even tlio weariest river AVinds somewhere safe to sea ! There are times at which one...prefer the other. Why go on struggling, and arguing, ami forcing our neighbours to share our opinions ? It is as uiiphilosonhical as to insist upon everybody... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' For that gives us, by its indefinable sound of truth, an insight into the souls of the men whom he... | |
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