 And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night And love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. There is no help for these things...  Selected Poems - Page 325by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1905 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 784 pages
...elusive skies. Still the foiled earnest ear is deaf, and blind Are still the eluded eyes. And again: There is no help for these things ; none to mend,...friend, Will make death clear, or make life durable. But it will be objected this is another kind of doubt. This is not the tortuous returning from belief... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - English poetry - 1884 - 724 pages
...she, a sad and second prey, compel Into the footless places once more trod, And shadows hot from hell. And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No...to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night I And love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. ( There is no help for t icse things; none to mend,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 296 pages
...ways Lethean, And stains with tears her changing bosom chill ; That obscure Venus of the hollow hill, With lips that lost their Grecian laugh divine Long...to light A spirit sick with perfume and sweet night ^.nd love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. There is no help for these things ; none to mend.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1902 - 1118 pages
...she, a sad and second prey, compel Into the footless places once more trod, And shadows hot from hell. And now no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No...bosom. There is no help for these things ; none to mmd, And none to mar; not all our songs, O friend, Will make death clear or make life durable. Howbeit... | |
 | Gilbert Parker - English fiction - 1913 - 510 pages
...conquer unrest: "And now, no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light The spirit sick with perfume and sweet night, And Love's...things, none to mend and none to mar; Not all our songs, oh, friend, can make Death clear or make Life durable; But still with rose and ivy and wild vine, And... | |
 | Gilbert Parker - English fiction - 1913 - 510 pages
...this dust of thine, At least I fill a place where white dreams dwell, And wreathe an unseen shrine." "'And Love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom....help for these things, none to mend and none to mar. . . .'" A sob rose in her throat. "Oh, the beauty of it, the beauty and the misery and the despair... | |
 | Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - American literature - 1913 - 1090 pages
...when she had slept the last sleep of her Ufe as it was, Swinburne's wonderful lines on Baudelaire : " There is no help for these things, none to mend and none to mar; Not all our songs, oh friend, can make death clear Or make life durable. . . ." '"There is no help for these tilings,'"... | |
 | Gilbert Parker - 1913 - 506 pages
...had never had a real illusion, never aught save the passion of living, the desire to conquer unrest: "And now, no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light The spirit sick with perfume and sweet night, And Love's tired eyes and hands and barren bosom. There... | |
 | Gilbert Parker - 1913 - 302 pages
...never had a real illusion, never aught save the passion of living, the desire to conquer unrest: " And now, no sacred staff shall break in blossom, No choral salutation lure to light 1*1 - .. . i . i TI f ^ i , • L »t 1 1 1 1 iri , ] There is no help for these things, none to mend... | |
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