IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen... The Medical World - Page 4551900Full view - About this book
| Readers - 1911 - 494 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not: if morning skies Books and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain ; Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. Song of the Soldier BY CHARLES G. HALPIN. Comrades known in marches many, Comrades tried in dangers... | |
| Elmer Willis Serl - 1911 - 124 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies. Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake!" These lines by Stevenson announce more than what some have dubbed the philosophy of tendermindedness... | |
| Violet Beauclere Clifton - Asia - 1911 - 426 pages
...less In my great task of happiness, If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face. Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake." RL STEVENSON. OUR bungalow consisted of a large bedroom, a dining-room, a room where Edward slept,... | |
| Poetry - 1912 - 616 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain, — Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure...pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-1894] THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE O THOU great Friend to all the... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 312 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain :•— Lord, Thy most pointed...pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in1 XXIII OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS OUT of the sun, out of the blast, Out of the world, alone I passed... | |
| Methodist Church - 1907 - 1038 pages
...human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Brooks, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure...spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose i lion, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, . And to my dead heart run them in.... | |
| William Mackintosh Mackay - Bible - 1912 - 376 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not, if morning skies, Books, and my food and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain ; — Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake.' The lines are noble, but the life of him who lived them was still more so. Though weak in body all... | |
| Elvira J. Slack - 1912 - 232 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books and my food, and summer rain, Knocked on my sullen heart in vain — Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. — Robert Louis Stevenson. Section 6. Conflict with Certain Questions (cont.) 1. The question concerning... | |
| Education - 1912 - 714 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. — Stevenson. MECHANICS OF COUNTRY SCHOOL TEACHING. BY PEARL B. HARRIS, CLYDE. It has seldom happened... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." Works. — Stevenson wrote entertaining travels, such as An Inland Voyage (1878), the record of a canoe... | |
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