 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
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...last." Then re-union for ever. " 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 thec again, And... | |
 | Drama - 1906 - 554 pages
...poet's longing for reunion with the wife that has gone before: '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' ? Or... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...And 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 with... | |
 | William G. Kingsland - 1890 - 160 pages
...one fight more, The best and the last ! [bore, I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forAnd bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of...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... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 478 pages
...Prospice, the concluding lines : — ' 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1890 - 492 pages
...extend the " black minute ? " " For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minutes at end ; And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices...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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 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. Thon a light, then thy breast. O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with... | |
 | United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...can be put upon the concluding words of " Prospice." After the sharp pang of death, the speaker says: "And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,...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 - 1890 - 294 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 soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!"... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 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 joy, then a light, then thy breast, 0 thou soul of my soul ! 1 shall clasp thee... | |
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