What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone? For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's... The Bookman: A Literary Journal - Страница 601918Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 страница
...world like wind, But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. These lines, written by a man of forty-eight remembering his own youthful dreams and loyalties, foreshadow... | |
| Jonathan Allison - 1996 - 372 страница
...nationalism in the interests of cultural nationalism, eg, the exhortation with roll-call of role-models: Was it for this the wild geese spread The grey wing...that blood was shed. For this Edward Fitzgerald died . . . Yeats had, in fact, written the best Young Ireland ballad so far. His three 1916 poems are a... | |
| Alexander Norman Jeffares - 1997 - 504 страница
...prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with...tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this that Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic... | |
| Robert Fitzroy Foster - 1998 - 708 страница
...prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone, For men were born to pray and save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play; They have gone about... | |
| George Bornstein, Theresa Lynn Tinkle - 1998 - 312 страница
...prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone, For men were horn to pray and save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone — It's with O'Leary in the grave. Throughout the controversy Yeats stood firmly with the strikers (though not always with some of their... | |
| Archie Weller - 1999 - 400 страница
...But first she sends out a message to her lover, husband and friend who is somewhere in the caves. Whs it for this the wild geese spread The grey wing upon every tide? Then her mind starts to go and she cannot remember the rest of the verses until: Romantic Ireland's... | |
| William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 страница
...to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; s For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary' in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind The names that stilled your childish play, 10 They have gone about... | |
| David Pierce - 2000 - 1380 страница
...save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild geese2 spread The grey wing upon every tide; For this that...Edward Fitzgerald died. And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,1 All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.... | |
| William Butler Yeats - 2001 - 612 страница
...world like wind, But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save? Romantic Ireland's dead...O'Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild geese spread0 The grey wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this Edward Fitzgerald... | |
| William C. Harris, William C. Harris, Jr. - 2001 - 450 страница
...prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play, They have gone about... | |
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