 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 63by Leslie Stephen - 1907 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...extant, I quoted as my favourite lines : From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever Gods may...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
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...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."—... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 376 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...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... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...great in such a passage as this : — ' From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...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... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. 19* Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 824 pages
...death set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever Gods there be, That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river, Winds somewhere safe to sea. These lines may be simply a dramatic"expression of sentiment ; but they seem more likely to represent... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be...even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. THE DEATH OF THE SUMMER. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters... | |
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