 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...religion of progress, and he saw no other. He wrote this poem partly, as he says at the beginning, "Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show...dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth." But he adds that he writes only for those who are in the same state of mind as himself: "Surely I write... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - English poetry - 1924 - 624 pages
...spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years? Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden ? Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden,...one at whiles To show the bitter old and wrinkled Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles, False dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth;... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1924 - 288 pages
...his individual peace of mind ; and it is to escape from his own mental tortures that he cries aloud. Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show the...bitter, old, and wrinkled truth Stripped naked of all venture that beguiles, false dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth : Because it gives... | |
 | American poetry - 1925 - 252 pages
...comforting piece of fiction set to lascivious music", but because he doesn't. Often the great poet must show: "The bitter, old, and wrinkled truth Stripped naked of all vesture that beguilei, False dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth." Always he must uphold the unknown,... | |
 | William Power - 1926 - 280 pages
...inward suffering cannot produce a white pearl, let it produce a black one, so it be perfect of its kind. Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden, And...whiles To show the bitter, old, and wrinkled truth . . . Because it gives some sense of power and passion In helpless impotence, to try to fashion Our... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1926 - 1012 pages
...comforting piece of fiction set to lascivious music," but because he doesn't. Often the great poet must show: "The bitter, old, and wrinkled truth Stripped...dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth." Always he must uphold the unknown, or the known and forgotten, Truth. The Philistines of America did... | |
 | James Thomson - 1927 - 288 pages
...spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years? Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden? Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden,...~ False dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes V* . Because it gives some sense of power and passion i In helpless impotence to try to fashion woe... | |
 | 1927 - 404 pages
...see it — for it is better to be mad than to paint roses on the lid of hell. We are going to write "The bitter, old, and wrinkled truth Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles," with a white-hot pen, as clearly as God writes the day with the whitehot pen of the sun. We are going... | |
 | Robert Eugen Zachrisson - English literature - 1928 - 188 pages
...synas alltför dyster, alltför bitter, alltför ironisk, ja, kanske rent av kall och frånstötande. Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show the...passion In helpless impotence to try to fashion Our woes in living words howe'er uncouth. (James Thomson.) I ungefärlig svensk översättning: Av bittert... | |
 | Robert Eugen Zachrisson - English literature - 1928 - 188 pages
...synas alltför dyster, alltför bitter, alltför ironisk, ja, kanske rent av kall och frånstötande. Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show the...passion In helpless impotence to try to fashion Our woes in living words howe'er uncouth. (James Thomson.) I ungefärlig svensk översättning: Av bittert... | |
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Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show the bitter old and wrinkled truth Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles, False dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth... 
