 Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall the dreamer awake? Is the world seen like shadows on water, and what if the mirror break? Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that were lamp-lit...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 356edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...even Love dies, and the Graces ring us to his burial. We ask, with the Hindu Prince, concerning life, Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent...lamp-lit at eve, and at morning are level and lone? We ask with sighs and tears, but would we have it otherwise ? If Poe was wrong in restricting poetry... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...story how the earth and the heavens began, How the gods are glad and angry, and a Deity once was man. I had thought, "Perchance in the cities where the...lamp-lit at eve, and at morning are level and lone ? xn Is there nought in the heaven above, whence the hail and the levin are hurled, Kut the wind that... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 854 pages
...that the quest is vain. XI Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall the dreamer awake i Is the world seen like shadows on water, and what if the mirror break i Shall it pass, as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that... | |
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...them in the sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection ? "Is life then a dream and dolusion; aud where shall the dreamer awake ? Is the world seen...on water, and what if the mirror break ? Shall it pia* as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone ? From the sands that were lamp-lit... | |
 | Gus Williams - 1881 - 556 pages
...or measured the unknow main — " Sadly they turn from the venture, and say that the quest is vain. Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall...lamp-lit at eve, and at morning are level and lone t Is there nought in the heaven above, whence the hail and the levin are hurled. But the wind that... | |
 | Robert Young - 1882 - 216 pages
...dust and ashes to ashes, or do we bury them in the sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection ? " Is life then a dream and delusion ; and where shall...lamp-lit at eve, and at morning are level and lone ? Is there nought in the heavens above, whence the hail and the leven are hurled, But the wind that... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...on, or measured the unknown main." Sadly they turn from the venture and say that the quest is vain. Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall...like shadows on water, and what if the mirror break 1 Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that were... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - English poetry - 1889 - 156 pages
...or measured the unknown main — " Sadly they turn from the venture, and say that the quest is vain. Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall the dreamer awake ? Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that were... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - English poetry - 1890 - 156 pages
...or measured the unknown main — " Sadly they turn from the venture, and say that the quest is vain. Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall...like shadows on water, and what if the mirror break ? D Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that... | |
 | American periodicals - 1890 - 978 pages
...this world whose meaning forever tantalizes and baffles him ? Is it but a many-hued phantasmagory, and Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone ? The darkness vouchsafes no answer, anc this sombrely fascinating poem begins anc ends, as is befitting,... | |
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