For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main, And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun... Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home: With Selections of Psalms - Page 261by Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 721 pagesFull view - About this book
| Marlborough coll - 1880 - 176 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain ; The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, thro' creeks... | |
| American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for yon, possess the field. " Jor while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. " And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes In the light ; In front the sun climbs... | |
| John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If ^hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be,...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light. In front, the sun climbs... | |
| John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1864 - 418 pages
...vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dnpes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed,...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. And not by Eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light. In front, the sun climbs... | |
| Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not nor failcth, And as things have been they remain. 2 If hopes were...flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 392 8 & 6's PM WHITTIER.... | |
| Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks... | |
| R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 312 pages
...the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hope were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon...now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. 1 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through... | |
| English fiction - 790 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...the fliers, And , but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain. Far back, through creeks... | |
| 1878 - 680 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...now the fliers. And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain. Far back, through creeksand... | |
| William Lee - Faith - 1868 - 266 pages
...labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." — CLOUGH'S Poems. CHAPTER IV. OF FAITH'S INCREASE : WHAT IT 1s. THERE is a growth or increase of... | |
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