 Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — - one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole...  Blätter für das Gymnasial-Schulwesen - Page 7731905Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle 'a to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. 1 was ever a fighter, so, — one fight more, The best...elements' rage, the fiendvoices that rave. Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, O... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1913 - 872 pages
...must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of...elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, 0... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 790 pages
...neck. ' The strong man must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained And the barriers fall. Sudden the worst turns the best to the brave The black minute's at end.' BROWNING. Before very long some orderlies came and fetched Do'-no-who. It was touching to see the patients... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, O... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, O... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, 0... | |
 | 1865 - 826 pages
...close with some noble lines, different in strain from all that we have quoted before : — PROSPICE. " Fear death ?— to feel the fog in my throat, The...black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first, a peace ; then... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...from your sights. Baling. Go, some of you convey him to the Tower. " W. Shakespeare. LXXVII. PROSPICE. death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist...black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...so—one fight more The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole...black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first a peace out of... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 pages
...Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, 0... | |
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