 | United States. Congress - Presidents - 1964 - 936 pages
...the ultimate democracy of death, the shining legend will remember him in other words of Housman's: "The time you won your town the race, We chaired you...cheering by. And home we brought you shoulder-high." ADDRESS BY Hon. Dominick V. Daniels OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Speaker, a great redwood has fallen in the forest.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...InPK; LiTB; LiTM; MoAB; MoBrPo; MoP; NAEL-2; NIP; NoAM; NoP; Prim; TrGrPo To an Athlete Dying Young 55 1. 93—98) 23 Tells how the drudging goblin sweat,...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hat 56 Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay. And early though the laurel... | |
 | Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman - Business & Economics - 1993 - 388 pages
...twenty-third psalm, perhaps, or some other familiar passage of scripture. She pauses, looks down, and begins: The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place ... These unexpected lines from AE Housman's "To an athlete dying young" catch us by surprise but recapitulate... | |
 | Jimmie Lynn Reeves, Richard Campbell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 348 pages
...of a generation. We wonder if this young man and others have ever read a poem by AE Housman called, "To an Athlete Dying Young" — The time you won your...To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we [brought] you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip... | |
 | Michael T. Isenberg - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 484 pages
...poignant beauty, given verse by the poet AE Housman in To an Athlete Dying Young (1896): Today, the roads all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home,...you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.4 John L., though, was not yet a "townsman of a stiller town." Far from being a universal ideal... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...Housman expresses his recurrent theme that an early death in one's prime — that moment of victory: "The Time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place" — may be preferable to the loss of one's powers and the eclipse of one's achievement ("Eyes the shady... | |
 | Susan J. Bandy - History - 2003 - 132 pages
...SPORT AT BERRY COLLEGE 'To 'An ftthktt 'Dyiig The nme you won your town the race \ 1 i' chairedyou through the marketplace. . Man and boy stood cheering by. And home we brought you shoulder high. To-day. the tuad nil runners come. Shoulders-high we bringyou home. . \nd M you i.tf... | |
 | Phil Cousineau - Sports & Recreation - 2003 - 276 pages
...man who thinks he can. — ANONYMOUS TWELVE GREAT LINES ABOUT FLEET-FOOTED VICTORY A Shropshire Lad The time you won your town the race We chaired you...cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows... | |
 | Willa Cather - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 562 pages
...of poem XIX, "To an Athlete Dying Young," in Tlie Shropshire Lad, p. 26. Correctly the stanzas read: The time you won your town the race We chaired you...and boy stood cheering by And Home we brought you shoulder high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your... | |
 | James Moore - History - 2004 - 403 pages
...going until she did. And for Taylor's sake, she would never, ever give up. Epilogue JOHNNY CAME HOME The time you won your town the race, We chaired you through the marketplace, While home we brought you shoulder high, As man and boy stood cheering by." AE Housman, "To an Athlete... | |
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To an Athlete Dying Young The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, 5 Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set... 
