 In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.  Catholic Educational Review - Page 62edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Francis Thompson - 1893 - 120 pages
...am defenceless utterly. I slept, methinks, and woke, And, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep. In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me ; grimed with smears, I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years — My mangled youth lies dead beneath... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - Elocution - 1905 - 142 pages
...smitten me to my knee ; I slept, methinks, and woke, And, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep. In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me ; grimmed with smears, I stand amid the dust o' the moulded years — VIII. Designer infinite ! —... | |
 | Francis Thompson - English poetry - 1908 - 176 pages
...am defenceless utterly. I slept, methinks, and woke, And, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep. In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years — My mangled youth lies dead beneath... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 178 pages
...am defenceless utterly. I slept, methinks, and woke, And, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep. In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years — My mangled youth lies dead beneath... | |
 | Francis Thompson - Conversion - 1911 - 46 pages
...I am defenceless utterly. I slept, methinks, and woke, d, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep, the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours d pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, :and amid the dust o' the mounded years — • mangled... | |
 | Francis Thompson - Conversion - 1911 - 48 pages
...am defenceless utterly. I slept, methinks, and woke, nd, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep, i the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours nd pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, stand amid the dust o' the mounded years — [y mangled... | |
 | John Kelman - Books and reading - 1912 - 350 pages
...of Divine Love at last, he remembers the omnipotence "that once had seemecTto~dwell in him, when " In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me," "The linked fantasies, in_whose blossomy twist I SWUng the __f«rth a frTnl-pt at my lurid " All that... | |
 | John Thomson - Poets, English - 1912 - 88 pages
...narration of his own experiences, will find many a passage which must have been suggested by this period : In the rash lustihead of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me ; grimed with smears, I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years — My mangled youth lies dead beneath... | |
 | George Ashton Beacock - 1912 - 150 pages
...nonrishest! The earth was suckled at thy shining breast, And in her veins is quick thy milky fire." ' „In the rash lustihead of my young powers, „ I...shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me . . ." 4 „Thy childhood must have felt the stings Of too divine o'ershadowings ; Its odorous heart... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 440 pages
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