 Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul,...  The Twentieth Century - Page 2581905Full view - About this book
 | Wilfrid Ward - Cardinals - 1897 - 694 pages
...determinately fixed To-day, to-morrow and for ever, pray ? You'll guarantee me that ? Not so I think. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - Oxford movement - 1897 - 688 pages
...determinately fixed To-day, to-morrow and for ever, pray ? You'll guarantee me that ? Not so I think. Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1898 - 358 pages
...unbelief, 1 80 Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly.... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - Christian life - 1898 - 340 pages
...guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us ? The problem 't here. Just when we are safest, there '» a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry, English - 1899 - 786 pages
...predecessor. Where's The gain ? how can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there's a sunsettouch, A...and enter in our soul , Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! We look on helplessly.... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1899 - 312 pages
...from a flower-bell, some one's death, doubt ?n A chorus-ending from Euripides, — faith ? And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at...and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, — The grand Perhaps ! we look on helplessly,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 594 pages
...spring. — [iIJS. M. erased.] 1. [Compare Bishop Blougram's lament on the instability of unfaith — " Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears. To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there." Browning's Poetical Worhs, 1869,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...spring. — [MS. M. erased.] 1. [Compare Bishop Blougram's lament on the instability of unfaith — " Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A...Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears. To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there." XXIII. XXIV. And how and why we... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1899 - 502 pages
...guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there '.- a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1899 - 500 pages
...guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us ? — the problem here. Just when we are safest, there 'sa sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, — And that 's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock... | |
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