 WHEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall be ; When haughty power mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound ; when greatest found, It hastes to die.  Kingsconnell - Halaman 141oleh mrs. Gordon - 1850Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 halaman
...earth's kings welcome their spotless guest, So gives He them by turn, to suffer or be blest. REVERSES WHEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound ; when greatest found, It hastes to die. When the rich town, that long Has lain its huts among,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 halaman
...of earth's tones. Recks but Heaven's call, And on the wall Reads but Heaven's letters ? PROSPERITY. When mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound ; when greatest found, It hastes to die. When the rich town, that long Has lain its huts among,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 halaman
...of earth's tones, Kecks but Heaven's call, And on the wall Reads but Heaven's letters ? PROSPERITY. When mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound; when greatest found, It hastes to die. Builds courts and palace vast, And vaunts — it shall... | |
 | 1901 - 660 halaman
...of earth's tones, Kecks but Heaven's call, And on the wall Beads but Heaven's letters? PROSPERITY. When mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound ; when greatest found, It hastes to die. Builds courts and palace vast, And vaunts — it shall... | |
 | Lyra - 1901 - 278 halaman
...poem called " Prosperity " (cxxxvii.), there cannot be two opinions as to the merit of the writing : When mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh : All growth has bound : when greatest found It hastes to die. " ( "The Witness" (cxxii.), again, has a stanza composed... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1901 - 276 halaman
...PROSPERITY When they shall say, Peace and safety r , then sudden destruction cometh upon them. \A7HEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall be...mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh : All growth has bound : when greatest found, It hastes to die. When the rich town, that long Has lain its huts among,... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1903 - 622 halaman
...complete the picture, but I have not done it and cannot. I send two songs a la mode de Walter Scott. When mirth is full and free. Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound ; when greatest fouu<l It hastes to die. When the rich town, that long Has lain its huts among,... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 halaman
...that metrical abbreviation has a solemn, lapidary force, we can see its influence on Newman's poem: When mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The watcher's axe is nigh; All growth hath bound: when greatest found, It hastes to die. 99 Gnomic certainty is generated by the trimeter... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2002 - 784 halaman
...pains; And Saints are lower 'd, that the world may rise. Valletta. January 23, 1833. LXVIII. REVERSES. WHEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall...mounts high, The Watcher's axe is nigh. All growth has bound; when greatest found, It hastes to die. When the rich town, that long Has lain its huts among,... | |
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