 | 1908 - 730 pages
...eagle plunge to find the air, That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumor of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...conceiving soars ; The drift of pinions, would we harken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. The angels keep their ancient places — Turn but a... | |
 | 1914 - 540 pages
...in motion If they have rumour of thee there ? 1 By Bishop Ryle in Westminster Abbey, Christmas 1913. Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendour'd thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry ; — and upon thy so sore loss... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1917 - 1062 pages
...high-strung voice that carried through the twilight of the tent a strange quality of other-worldliness: " Not. where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors." " 'The Kingdom of God,' " Judith placed it for him. "That's it ! " he cried. "There was another line of it... | |
 | 1908 - 860 pages
...The eagle plunge to mid the air. That we ask of the stars in motion if they have rumor of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars; The drift of pinions, would we harken. Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. The angels keep their ancient places — Turn but a... | |
 | 1912 - 866 pages
...eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumor of Thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...conceiving soars! — The drift of pinions, would we hrrken, Beats at our clay-shuttered doors. The angels keep their ancient places; — Turn but a stone,... | |
 | Frank Karslake - 1918 - 700 pages
...little less beautiful, are the verses which ought to find a place in every anthology of London :— " The angels keep their ancient places ; Turn but a...many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadden) Cry ;—and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched between... | |
 | 1910 - 332 pages
...Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air, Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder), Cry:—and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched between heaven and... | |
 | Adeline Cashmore - 1910 - 192 pages
...eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there ! Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. 150 But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry ; — and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1910 - 322 pages
...eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed...ancient places; — Turn but a stone, and start a wing! 'T is ye, 't is your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst... | |
 | 1927 - 1024 pages
...seems to have possessed his particular secret of high values and far vision combined when he wrote : The angels keep their ancient places ; — Turn but a stone and start a wing ! Need any one of us now 'miss the many-splendoured thing ' ? BEETHOVEN IN HIS TWENTY-FtRST YEAR Front... | |
| |
Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars! — The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. 
