 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
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - English literature - 1915 - 488 pages
...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 in. THE PRESENT DAY. Towards the close of the nineteenth century, a new age undoubtedly began. It has hardly... | |
 | Richard Henry Edwards - Amusements - 1915 - 168 pages
...happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked at 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: "The Celestial Surgeon." It must be that all men and women are meant... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1915 - 568 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 in! SIR LARK AND KING SUN: A PARABLE "Good morrow, my lord!" in the sky alone, Sang the lark, as the sun... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - American literature - 1915 - 326 pages
...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 in ! STUDY HINTS Does Stevenson consider his task one merely of being happy himself, or also of making... | |
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - Happiness - 1916 - 64 pages
...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 THE best way to secure a happy home is to be happy yourself. One really... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1916 - 464 pages
...not so often heard quoted the later lines in the same Stevensonian verses : Lord, thy most poignant pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake ; Or,...pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in. This age and country may almost be said to maintain a cult of happiness, as in the early centuries... | |
 | Francis Bail Pearson - Education, Secondary - 1916 - 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 pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. These two pictures are not attractive ones, by any means ; but this is not a work of fiction. If the... | |
 | Leslie Buswell - Ambulance drivers - 1916 - 228 pages
...among nations who dare to be strong for the rest." APA September 6, 1915. I to GO O § £ SI O X " Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake." Stevenson AMBULANCE NO. 10 PERSONAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT AMERICAN AMBULANCE, June 17th. I CAME here... | |
 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Dorothy Canfield Fisher - American literature - 1916 - 168 pages
...thy beautiful garments. — Isaiah. If I have faltered more or less In my great Task of Happiness, Lord, thy most pointed Pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake. — Stevenson. Our little lives always stagnate into hypocrisy or morbidity unless the general wave... | |
 | William Maddux Tanner - American essays - 1917 - 342 pages
...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. Even Stevenson called his happiness a 'great task' ; and it was no wonder. For him, and for many, it... | |
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