 Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth, The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth; — Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of...  The Yale Review - Page 300edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | 1917 - 1262 pages
...dross, the dust and the scum of the earth. "Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold ; (Ours) be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the...of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold. To these shall our service be rendered. Amen." * WOMAN'S PART IN WINNING THE WAR1 BY HELEN F. FRASER... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 pages
...of potentates goodly in girth; — Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;...cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tale be told. AMEN. BOOK I Toil fields and mines. • Mlftlj t&e BY EDWIN MAKKHAM (This poem, which... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - 1918 - 352 pages
...the light is awake. . . . (Swinburne: Halt Before Rome.) Dactylic movement with amphibrach phrasing: Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;...maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold.1 (John Masefield: A Consecration.) The conflict of phrasing with movement may be purely a rhythmic... | |
 | John Masefield - 1918 - 556 pages
...— Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! THEIRS be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of ashes, a...of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Oj these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told. AMEN. The "Loch Achray" was a clipper tall... | |
 | Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson, Marguerite Wilkinson - 1919 - 474 pages
...of potentates goodly in girth; — Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;...cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tale be told. Amen. John Masefield THE LEADEN-EYED Let not young souls be smothered out before They... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 338 pages
...girth; Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! "Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the manned, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned,... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 560 pages
...of potentates goodly in girth; — Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth ! Of the maimed^ of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold— Of these shall my songs he fashioned, my tales he told. AMEN. John Minefield (1878- ) In the following poem Wilfrid Wilson... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - 1923 - 360 pages
...the light is awake. . . . (Swinburne: Halt Before Rome.) Dactylic movement with amphibrach phrasing: Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;...the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold.* (John Masefield: A Consecration.) The conflict of phrasing with movement may be purely a rhythmic effect... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1924 - 238 pages
...presence of potentates goodly in girth;— Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mold. Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold— Of these shall my songs... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1925 - 1184 pages
...potentates goodly in girth; — • Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;...the cold— Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tale be told. Amen. John Masefield BATTLE-SONG OF FAILURE WE strain toward Heaven and lay hold on Hell;... | |
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