 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pàgines
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...last ! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forebore, And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1881 - 548 pàgines
...the barriers fall, Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon is gained, The reward of it all. I waa ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last ! I wonld hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbear And bade me creep past. No, let me taste the whole... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pàgines
...the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. «„ I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 302 pàgines
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so, — one fight more, The best and the last ! would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past o! let me taste the whole... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 306 pàgines
...thanks the sultry heaven Over all the blossoming : If to stammering some are given, BOOK OF PARADISE. I WAS ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | Robert Collyer - 1877 - 368 pàgines
...; fare like my peers Who have met him of old ; Bear the brunt ; in a moment pay life's whole arrean Of pain, darkness, and cold ; For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave. The dark minutes at end, Then the elements rage ; and the voices that rave Shall soften and blend, —... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pàgines
...breast; its splendor soon or late, Will pierce the gloom: I shall emerge one day ! " " Fear death P— " I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the lastl " For,— " Not alone wlien life flows still do truth And power emerge, hut also when strange... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pàgines
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | John Weiss - 1880 - 296 pàgines
...begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place ? The power of the night, the press of the storm ? No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers....the worst turns the best, to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 pàgines
...characteristic boldness he faces the crisis — leaps across the very chasm of death, into the life beyond : " I was ever a fighter ; so one fight more, The best...bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it fair, like my peers The heroes of old ; Bear the brunt ; in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain,... | |
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I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! 
