 How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend, Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes Now, leaved how thick ! laced they are again With fretty...  Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature - Page 119by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - 2001 - 560 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Laurence Binyon - English poetry - 1924 - 394 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build — but not I build; no, but strain, Time's...Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Gerard Hopkins. CXCVIII OUR LADY MOTHER of God ! no lady thou : Common woman of common earth ! OUR LADY ladies... | |
 | Alfred Alvarez - Psychology - 1990 - 324 pages
...mysterious biological changes but because of the lack of them. Instead of change, there is stasis: Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain. Time's...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. A suicidal depression is a kind of spiritual winter, frozen, sterile, unmoving. The richer, softer... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 260 pages
...thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build—but not I build; no but strain, Time's eunuch, and not...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. 41 The yearning of his entire being is for peace, full and steady peace. "Peace": WHEN will you ever,... | |
 | Wendy Farley - Religion - 1990 - 156 pages
...power of mercy, comfort, justice, and redemption. Divine Compassion and the Problem of Evil Mine, 0 thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Thou Art Indeed Just" Compassion is the incarnation of divine love as redemptive power against the domination of evil. It... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build — but not I build; no, but strain, Time's...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. 17:14-18 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build - but not I build; no, but strain, Time's...of life, send my roots rain. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Let me be to Thee as the circling bird Let me be to Thee as the circling bird, Or bat with tender and... | |
 | Gerard Manley Hopkins - Poetry - 1995 - 68 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build —but not I build; no, but strain, Time's...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. 51 ToRB. The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe... | |
 | Robert Alter - Education - 1996 - 264 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build — but not I build: no but strain, Time's...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. The poem presents what looks at first like an allusion of part to part — the first three lines of... | |
 | Grant Hardy - History - 1999 - 336 pages
...UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD Why do sinners' ways prosper: and why must Disappointment all I endeavor end? birds build — but not I build; no, but strain Time's...of life, send my roots rain. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS I have argued that as a microcosm, the Shiji is not simply the embodiment of Sima Qian's opinions.... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...Now, leaved how thick! laced they are again With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build— but not I build; no, but strain, Time's...wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. 51:20-51:23 Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations,... | |
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