 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects...have come into our heritage. — Rupert Brooke THE DEAD n These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.... | |
 | David Morton - Sonnet - 1926 - 92 pages
...serene, That men call age; and those who would have been Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal wage; And Nobleness walks... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1918 - 428 pages
...serene, That men call age: and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave their immortality. Blow bugles, blow ! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honor has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal wage: And Nobleness walks... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - Art - 1984 - 252 pages
...they gave, their immortality. Holiness, lacked so long, and love, and pain. Honor has come back, as king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage." Brooke's poem is the equivalent of innumerable public park statues and such sites as the Tomb of the... | |
 | Cecil D. Eby - Literary Collections - 1987 - 308 pages
...they have rediscovered lost verities. Because of the war, according to the poem's concluding lines, Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. 76 In a 1912 notebook Brooke had started a poem with the line "And I am come into my heritage," which... | |
 | Theo Stemmler - Peace in literature - 1994 - 268 pages
...erhielten, haben die Gefallenen damit zugleich „rarer gifts than gold" (3) zuteil werden lassen. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, äs a king, to earth And paid his subjects with a royal wage; And Nobelness walks in our ways again;... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1995 - 164 pages
...serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. iv The Dead These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift... | |
 | Ralph Melnick - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 786 pages
...symbolized this hysteria born of desperation and the utter futility that was to meet their every effort: 188 Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage.44 Ludwig's similarly conflicted, but hopeful, thoughts of the war's effect upon civilization's... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...call age; and those that would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. 1571 'The Dead' p, Shock or knock or lock 1572 'Heaven' Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond? 1573 'The Hill'... | |
 | Stuart Rees - Human rights - 2003 - 308 pages
...prospect of enjoying serenity in old age. Here are the last six lines of the final sonnet 'Death'. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,...our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. 29 Similar sentiments, that death may provide the only sense of nobleness to emerge from otherwise... | |
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Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal wage; And Nobleness walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage. 
