 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke...  Prolusiones - Page 24by Marlborough coll - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 652 pages
...quoted in the Life and Letters of Lord, Mo.ca.iday, second edition, 1878, vol. i. chap. iv. 1 — " For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." JATDEE. THE "LAKD OF GREEN... | |
 | 1862 - 524 pages
...despaired of the cause of liberal opinions and institutions after the successful reaction of 1849 : — ' Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour...breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. ' And not by eastern windows... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. 3 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks, and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. 1 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
 | 1878 - 680 pages
...signs of an intellectual dawn slowly breaking on the spiritual world : ' Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain. The...breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain. Far back, through creeksand inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
 | English fiction - 790 pages
...signs of an intellectual dawn slowly breaking on the spiritual world : ' Say not the struggle naught availeth. The labour and the wounds are vain. The...breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain. Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; 5 It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase...vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, 10 Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern... | |
 | William Lee - Faith - 1868 - 266 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." — CLOUGH'S Poems. CHAPTER... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pages
...STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main, And not by eastern windows only,... | |
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