 Night incessandy softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face...  In Portia's Gardens - Page 36by William Sloane Kennedy - 1897 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - Authors' presentation copies - 1883 - 270 pages
...the victor, and without humiliation by the vanquished. The word " Reconciliation" spans them all : Word over all, beautiful as the sky ; Beautiful that...the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash ag*in, and ever again, this soiled world ; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I... | |
 | Eduard Bertz - 1884 - 250 pages
...home. When the door had closed behind him they heard the screams of his frightened wife. CHAPTEE XIX. ' Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost.' WALT WHITMAN. MICHAELMAS vacations at last brought the summer term to a close. It had been a time of... | |
 | Eduard Bertz - 1884 - 248 pages
...When the door had closed behind him they heard the screams of his frightened wife. N CHAPTER XIX. 1 Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost.' WALT WHITMAN. MICHAELMAS vacations at last brought the summer term to a close. It had been a time of... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pages
...must mainly turn. Take a snatch in which he has not quite reached his latest mellowness and measure. RECONCILIATION. Word over all, beautiful as the sky...that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time he utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...feeling. Under the head of " Reconciliation " are these lines: — " Word over all, beautiful as the sky I Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost 1 That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly, softly wash again, and ever again, this... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. RECONCILIATION. WOED over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war...the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softl) For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 500 pages
...their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour, down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. EECONCILIATION. WOED over all, beautiful as the sky. Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time ^< utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly so:: For my enemy is dead,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - Authors, American - 1898 - 406 pages
...the musical effect of words he dwelt upon it3. What a line is the last of the following verses from " Reconciliation " : Word over all, beautiful as the...Beautiful that war. and all its deeds of carnage, must be utterly lost ! That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly wash again, and ever again,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...gained to make up for what we have lost ? Take his lines called " Reconciliation," for instance: — "Word over all beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever^gain, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead ; I look where he... | |
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