 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - American literature - 1921 - 204 pages
...eternity in one breath, preparing for the great stroke of the poem— 'i ' But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. At the end we are left wondering at this art, more like the painter's than the poet's, which can conjure... | |
 | John Freeman - Moore, George - 1922 - 306 pages
...enemy hides slily in his own heart, and another is Marvell's enemy : — ' At my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.' Creative art is a world in itself, obedient to other laws, bound by other obligations of honour, than... | |
 | Society verse - 1922 - 392 pages
...Fair lady, you deserve this state, 83 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... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 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... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - English poetry - 1923 - 306 pages
...should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. This is ingenious fancy; But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Here passion has woken, and with it that sense of infinite time and space beyond all calculation, that... | |
 | Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 pages
...makes me end where I begun. DONNE, A Valediction forbidding Mourning (2) 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - Criticism - 1923 - 214 pages
...common property of mankind. When, however, Andrew Marvell says, At my back I always hear Time's wingfid chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity, and when John Keats says, Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1924 - 222 pages
...the age as it did Marvell's. With their forerunner, they might say : " For at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity." Henry Baker in his lines To Flora strikes this same note : " Tell me, Flora, tell me, why, Little Love,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - English poetry - 1924 - 52 pages
...been one of the most important means of poetic effect since Homer: — But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. . A whole civilization resides in these lines : — Pallida Mors aequa pulsat pede pauperumb tabernas,... | |
 | Vera Meynell - English poetry - 1925 - 378 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... | |
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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. 
