 | Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1838 - 394 pages
...that most representative poet of our time, whom I have twice quoted already: — " Achilles ponders iu his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb. Silent...though not content, And wait to see the future come. Silent, wliile years engrave the brow, Silent, the best are silent now." We all feel certainly a disposition... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 854 pages
...preparation for wars. — Punch. THE SADNESS OF A TBANSITJ.ON PERIOD. [from New Poems, by Matthew Arnold.} Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...: Silent they are, though not content, And wait to sec the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. Our fathers... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 668 pages
...Yet, Freedom ! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. 13. Achilles ponders in his tent ; The kings of modern...men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. 14. To set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides, &c. WL... | |
 | American essays - 1919 - 1066 pages
...great ideals. Mathew Arnold, in a mood of academic despondency, wrote of an age of transition, — Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb. Silent they stand, but not content, And wait to see the Future come. There may be some ex-kings of thought who... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...the people who believe ! Silent, while years engrave the brow ; Silent, — the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. Our fathers watered with their tears This sea of time whereon we sail; Their voices were in all men's... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...of the people who believe ! Silent, while years engrave the brow; Silent—the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. Our fathers water'd with their tears This sea of time whereon we sail; Their voices were in all men's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...taken away. He is almost ashamed of himself for singing at all. " The best are silent now," he says : " Achilles ponders in his tent; The kings of modern...And wait to see the future come. They have the grief man had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. Our fathers watered with their tears j This sea... | |
 | Great Britain - 1871 - 674 pages
...at all. And what says Matthew Arnold in one of his terse, melodious, and thoughtful verses ? — " Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...though not content, And wait to see the future come." A mere soldier of the rank and file would venture to suggest to those who have a certain repugnance... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - Philosophy and religion - 1877 - 626 pages
...sickly horror to the scene ; the beaten chieftains wrangling over their defeat, and the fallen leader sitting apart in sullen gloom. We think of how much...had of yore, But they contend and cry no more." And Schleiermachcr, gloomily foreboding the present crisis nearly fifty years ago, wrote to his friend... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 288 pages
...the people who believe ! Silent, while years engrave the brow ; Silent, — the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. Our fathers watered with their tears This sea of time whereon we sail ; Their voices were in all men's... | |
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Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. 
