 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1909 - 384 pages
...indeed, we range among the Dissenters, yet his most magnificent lines — But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity — occur in a poem of frankly pagan sensuousness. He wrote an Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland,... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Theology - 1909 - 412 pages
...fittest points in the saшe direction." Andrew Marvell ; 1621-1878 ) — " At my back 1 always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vaat Eternity." Goethe in his last days came to be a profound believer in immortality. " You ask me... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...that disturb the heart as these of Marvell's have power to disturb it — But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) It is usually conceded that Dryden's rank in the hierarchy of letters owes... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley - California - 1918 - 680 pages
...homespun gray is suddenly changed for severe and splendorous purples: "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." How is that for the grand manner — for Milton's friend on Parnassus and in Westminster? Time and... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 408 pages
...heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...tones with which he was accustomed to recite MarvelTs famous lines : — " But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." Professor Copeland of Harvard, as he reads Kipling's Bell-buoy, fills the verses with the solemnity... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 136 pages
...For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. 20 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25 Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song ; then... | |
 | English literature - 1914 - 556 pages
...bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed ; ' 2 except perhaps this : ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.'3 Finally, before we leave the seventeenth century, you have as noble 1 Paradise Regained,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. 20 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25 Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song: then worms... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. 20 But at my back I always hear u beneath the sad and heavy line Of death dost waste, all senseless, cold, and dark; Where Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms... | |
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. 
