 They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers: But they fed not on the advancing hours: Their hearts held cravings for the buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer...  The Works of Lord Morley - Page 304by John Morley - 1921Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1868 - 846 pages
...fathers were coûtent with their pin-hole views of the universe. Nevertheless, he has already learned — What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! Christendom has now become a vast readingroom, and its library is chiefly remarkable for its miscellaneous... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 402 pages
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith — " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Transcendentalism (New England) - 1883 - 344 pages
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith— " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | William Sharp - English poetry - 1886 - 402 pages
...knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul WThen hot for certainties in this our life ! In tragic hints...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! As to the single sonnet proper by Mr. Meredith which I have given in my selection, it is quite unnecessary... | |
 | William Sharp - English poetry - 1886 - 424 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each the fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life 1 — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poetry of places - 1887 - 390 pages
...sapphire flashing light, hone. GERALD MASSEY. The sea, just breathing, shone. [From Modern Love.] BONDER midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. GEORGE MEREDITH. [From Sea Voices.] T)EACE, moaning Sea; what tale have you to tell? What mystic tidings,... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - English poetry - 1889 - 416 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! Concerning Mr. Meredith's life a very few words must suffice. All that is known of him is that he... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 284 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To know that faint thin line upon the shore !" Anyone who loves these fifty poems — fifty poems, and... | |
 | George Meredith - 1892 - 128 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY ONE fairest of the... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - American literature - 1892 - 192 pages
...apprehend Dumb harmony without. " His song may sometimes be heavily burdened, as in the following : — " Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint, thin line upon the shore!" But it generally has a set-off of another, and totally different, character — the frowning cloud... | |
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