 s to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like...  Goethe's West-Easterly Divan - Page 175by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1913 - 872 pages
...arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, 0 thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...worst turns the best to the brave The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And with... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...Of pain, darkness, and cold ! For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light— then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul, I shall clasp thee again. And... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1871 - 422 pages
...And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it aH. I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blond, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light, then thy breast, 0 thou... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...arrears, Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that...dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become, first a piece out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again,... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1881 - 548 pages
...worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a piece out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, 0, thou soul of my soul ! 1 shall clasp thee again,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. «„ I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, ; O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And... | |
 | 1920 - 742 pages
...: " For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the element's rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast. O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - English fiction - 1876 - 296 pages
...worst turns the best to the brave. The black minute's at end: And the elements rage, the fiend voices that rave Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light—then thy breast, O thou soul of my soull I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!"... | |
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