 | 1876 - 844 pàgines
...himself to the veteran on his scventv-fifth birthday, in which there occurs the following verse : — I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...; I warmed both hands before the fire of Life ; It sinks ; and I am ready to depart. With the facsimile before his eyes, the word before, which has a... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pàgines
...this letter. On the night you left me I wrote ' the following DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER : ' I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.' In a previous section... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pàgines
...sincerity to himself his noble quatrain which serves as motto to " Last Fruits off an Old Tree : "— " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." Landor's periods of productive energy being identical with periods... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pàgines
...small portion of our so much smaller beings, and drag wearily toward the grave our for-the-most-part dead selves, dead from the suicidal poison of misuse...fire of Life ; It fails, and I am ready to depart 1 " And further, in the consummation of the faith of a lifetime, sing to the world : .; jfust in death... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 pàgines
...into my eyes no more, Nor see the bitter tears they weep. CCCXVII.—ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife,...Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. CCCXVIII.—ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. To my ninth decade I have totter'd... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 pàgines
...into my eyes no more, Nor see the bitter tears they weep. CCCXVH.— ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife,...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. CCCXVIIL — ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. To my ninth decade I have... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pàgines
...Would never leave me comfortless and lone.' A sigh broke through his slumber, not the last. ON HIMSELF. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. FOR AN EPITAPH AT FIESOLE. Lo ! where the four mimosas blend their... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pàgines
...Would never leave me comfortless and lone.' A sigh broke through his slumber, not the last. ON HIMSELF. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. FOR AN EPITAPH AT FIESOLE. Lo ! where the four mimosas blend their... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pàgines
...but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife,...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. Born 1835. Died 1864. A LOST CHORD. SEATED... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pàgines
...but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife,...; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. Born 1835. Died 1864. A LOST CHORD. SEATED... | |
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I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 
