 PIPER, PLAY! Now the furnaces are out, And the aching anvils sleep ; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play ! Piper, play ! Though we be o'erlaboured men, Ripe for rest, pipe your beSt ! Let us foot it once again...  New Ballads - Page 94by John Davidson - 1897 - 110 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Davidson - 1924 - 184 pages
...low; Pipe of love in mellow notes, Till the tears begin to flow, And our hearts are in our throats 1 Nameless as the stars of night Far in galaxies unfurled,...for rest, pipe your best! For a little we are free! HOLIDAY AT HAMPTON COURT SCALES of pearly cloud inlay North and south the turquoise sky, While the... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...our hearts nre In our throats. Nameless as the stars of night Far in galaxies unfurled, Yet we yield unrivalled might, Joints and hinges of the world!...for rest, pipe your best! For a little we are free! John Davidson. From " Selected Poems." THE ROWFANT BOOKS. (Ballade eu guise de rondeau.) The Rowfant... | |
 | Popular culture - 1897 - 716 pages
...derive a sad, sweet joy from the under-current of gloom which is in a ballad like " Piper, Play !"— " Now the furnaces are out, And the aching anvils sleep , Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward, twenty deep. Piper, play ! Piper, play ! Though we be o'erlaboured... | |
 | William Archer - English poetry - 1902 - 664 pages
...on his lips ; and he is withal a strong, free spirit, untrammelled by cowardice, pedantry or cant. PIPER, PLAY! Now the furnaces are out, And the aching...for rest, pipe your best ! For a little we are free ! WINTER RAIN. Motionless, leaden cloud The region roofed and walled ; Beneath, a tempest shrieked... | |
 | William Archer - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 658 pages
...; and he is withal a strong, free spirit, untrammelled by cowardice, pedantry or cant. PIPER, PLAY! Now the furnaces are out. And the aching anvils sleep ; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play ! Piper, play ! Though we be o'erlaboured... | |
 | John Davidson - Heaven - 1904 - 238 pages
...wrought, In the grey earth of your brain aglow With the red earth burning in your heart. PIPER, PLAY! Now the furnaces are out, And the aching anvils sleep; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play! Piper, play! Though we be o'erlaboured men.... | |
 | 1905 - 858 pages
...closing chapters give the book its prime Importance to American readers. Piper, Play! Etc. PIPER, PLAY ! Now the furnaces are out. And the aching anvils sleep; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play! Piper, play! Though we be o'erlabored men,... | |
 | Wallace Rice, Frances Rice - American poetry - 1910 - 466 pages
...late! O man of morbid soul and small, Think'st thou this narrow world is all? ANONYMOUS. PIPER, PLAY Now the furnaces are out, And the aching anvils sleep; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play! Piper, play! Though we be o'erlabored men,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1918 - 694 pages
...subscribe to the judgment which allows Davidson a place among the poets. ALDOUS HUXLEY. PIPER, PLAY l Now the furnaces are out, And the aching anvils sleep; Down the road the grimy rout Tramples homeward twenty deep. Piper, play! Piper, play! Though we be o'erlaboured men... | |
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