 ... round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak, To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When want or woe or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2751862Full view - About this book
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1908 - 404 pages
...is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart : or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend 1 There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far,...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, That glows but burns not, though it beam and shine, Light, but no heat,... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 452 pages
...out is like a shriek Prest from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend f There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows and burns not, tho it gleam and shine, — Light, but no heat... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pages
...or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend ?...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase Which glows and bums not, though it gleam and shine, — Nor !s tt mere strength... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pages
...or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend ?...spun too fine. Which has more height than breadth, mnre depth than length. Let but this force of thought and speech be mine. And he that will may take... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1911 - 300 pages
...gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some far-off fiend ? There is a strength Which dies if stretched...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase Which glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine, — Light, but no heat,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1911 - 296 pages
...gasped out is like a shriik Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some far-off fiend ? There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fne, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let but this force of thought and... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend?...of thought and speech be mine. And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase, Which glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine; Light but not heat... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1918 - 344 pages
...or fear is in the throat, So that each word gaspt out is like a shriek Presst from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note, Sung by some fay or fiend? There is a strength Which dies, if stretcht too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1920 - 192 pages
...out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend T There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows and burns not, tho it gleam and shine, — Light, but no heat... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 pages
...or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend ?...this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that wil. may take the sleek fat phrase Which glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine, — Light,... | |
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