Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now... The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 - Page 28231918 - 4009 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1890 - 234 pages
...come back like a vernal breeze into the exotic luxuries of a more complex and pompous Christianity, "For while the tired waves vainly breaking Seem here...the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly 1 — But Westward, look ! the land is bright THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.* " In the morning ye say, It... | |
| Poetry - 1891 - 168 pages
...right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still, and find thee, Help, sure help. CLOUGH 76 SAY not, the struggle naught availeth, The labor and...how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright. CLOUGH. 77 ~W~TTHAT voice did on my spirit fall, TV Peschiera, wlien thy bridge I crost t ""Pis better... | |
| English periodicals - 1892 - 886 pages
...known that we may be pardoned for quoting it in full. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...slowly ; But westward, look ! the land is bright. It is a sentiment very similar to this that Longfellow has given expression to in his last poem, "... | |
| American literature - 1898 - 674 pages
...Forsyth. SAY NOT THE STRUGG NOUGHT AYAILETH. BY ARTHfR Hl'GII Cl.OL'GH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy...light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, Hut westward, look, the land is bright. TO RTHB BY WILLIAM ERNEST HEM.EY. Ol"l of the night that covers... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1894 - 608 pages
...thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. — Mrs. Browning. SATURDAY. The Land is Bright. Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labor and...sun climbs slow, — how slowly ! But westward look I the land is bright. — Arthur Hugh Clough. EDITORIAL NOTES. "Days should speak, and multitude of... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - English poetry - 1894 - 230 pages
...at all.' 1849 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH SAY not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. SONGS WRITTEN ON SHIP-BOARD1 FAREWELL, farewell ! Her vans the vessel tries, His iron might the potent... | |
| American literature - 1894 - 456 pages
...STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAII.ETH. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, Then enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. (Macmillan. $1.) — NY Commercial Advertiser. From the " Kingdom of the White Woiimn.'1 Copjrllht,... | |
| John White Chadwick - American poetry - 1896 - 284 pages
...unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. JOHN BURROUGHS. SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not the...how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright. ANTI-DESPERATION. LONG fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler... | |
| John White Chadwick - American poetry - 1896 - 282 pages
...unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. JOHN BURROUGHS. SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not the...how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. ANTI-DESPERATION. LONG fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, How angrily thou... | |
| John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the flyers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH CLOUGH. CCLXXXVII A THANKSGIVING WE thank Thee, O God of earth and heaven, Source and essence of... | |
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