 A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest.  A.G. Meissners Skizzen ... - Page 104by August Gottlieb Meissner - 1784Full view - About this book
 | Edward Smith Parsons - 1904 - 754 pages
...And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. ******** And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes." — The Buried Life. Under the same figure of the river of life, but with an individuality of its own,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1905 - 222 pages
...its winding murmur ; and he sees And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusiv.e shadow, rest. An air...hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. begrabene Seben Иu8 bem Snglifdjen bon Иr no Ib, ííbrvfel't Don grifc M vu n ft (geflorben 1881).... | |
 | William James Dawson - English poetry - 1906 - 416 pages
...very phrases of Wordsworth: And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he does forever chase The flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness...his breast. And then he thinks he knows The hills whence his life rose, And the sea where it goes. But in his general disapproval of modern life and... | |
 | Charles Lewis Slattery - 1906 - 344 pages
...Rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast. And then ... he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes."1 That is heart speaking to heart; that is deep calling unto deep; that is friend so near to... | |
 | William Morton Payne - English poetry - 1907 - 404 pages
...he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth forever chase That flying and elusive...hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes." Sometimes, again, it previsions a future when man and nature shall become so merged, when the spirit... | |
 | Otto Luitpold Jiriczek - English poetry - 1907 - 518 pages
...where it glides, the sun, the breeze. And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air...hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. THE FUTURE. [Empedocles etc. 1852.] A WANDERER is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...where it glides, the sun, the breeze And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air...hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. 1 The Bacchanalia, without the rambling prelude, would not have danced from the silence of death into... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Fore-edge painting - 1907 - 536 pages
...arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, r^st. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted...hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS IN this lone, open glade I lie, Screen'd by deep boughs on either... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1908 - 328 pages
...: ' And then arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and illusive shadow Rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face,...hills where his life rose And the sea where it goes.' WILLIAM HAZLITT FOR an author to fare better dead than alive is good proof of his literary vivacity... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1908 - 324 pages
...arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes." Another aspect of the same thought is to be found in the poem — Palladium, where the soul, as far... | |
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