 And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over their breast ; And while they try to...  The Christian socialist - Pagina 861883Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1854 - 270 pagini
...apprehended, do exhibit one or the other of those extremes which the poet has so well described : " For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their minds- to some unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall ; And so, year... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1855 - 270 pagini
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pagini
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | Arthur Middleton - 1868 - 236 pagini
...Besides," he continued, " you do not give the context; let me give you the other side of the picture— ' For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil they ceaselessly Their mind to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison walls."... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pagini
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh prgducts of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 342 pagini
...I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. • For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly N 2 Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pagini
...and be as others, — benumbed by the world's sway, or possessed by the fiery glow of passion? — 'For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall... | |
 | 1883 - 520 pagini
...know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For must men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot...languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give. ******* And the rest, a few. Escape their prison and depart On the wide ocean of life anew. There the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagini
...Dreaming of naught beyond thfir prison wall. And as, year after year. Fresh product* of their barren labor stum The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest, Death in their prison reaches them, Unfrecd,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 258 pagini
...— And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, And while they try to stem The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest, Death in their prison... | |
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