 When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, 'He was a man who used to notice such things'? If it be in the dusk...  The Church Quarterly Review - Page 1511919Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...to quote in full, but the first three verses will be sufficient to illustrate what I have said : nn When the Present has latched its postern behind my...He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink. The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades... | |
 | American fiction - 1928 - 556 pages
...own epitaph is in those haunting lines that close the 1920 edition of the Complete Poems: AFTERWARDS When the present has latched its postern behind my...its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new spun silk, will the neighbors say, 'He was a man who used to notice such things'? If I pass during... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 284 pages
...prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern behind my...May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate -filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, " He was a man who used to notice such things"... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 278 pages
...behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate -filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English poetry - 1918 - 372 pages
...obedience, troops of friends. The last poem in Moments of Vision blesses rather than curses life. AFTERWARDS When the Present has latched its postern behind my..."He was a man who used to notice such things"? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades... | |
 | Robert Lynd - English literature - 1919 - 260 pages
...long to quote in full, but the first three verses will be sufficient to illustrate what I have said : When the Present has latched its postern behind my...He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English poetry - 1919 - 386 pages
...obedience, troops of friends. The last poem in Moments of Vision blesses rather than curses life. AFTERWARDS When the Present has latched its postern behind my...the people say "He was a man who used to notice such things"f If it he in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 578 pages
...prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an... | |
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