 With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.  Queen's Quarterly - Page 3341913Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...the depths of thyself! MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart reside?, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ;... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...his rehabilitated Hindoo-Greek theosophy — MORALITY. We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can he through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...before the elements, and owes no homage to the Sun." " We cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still,...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1854 - 304 pages
...To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death. MORALITY WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ;... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1854 - 334 pages
...to Middlethorpe. So ended Edward's plot. CHAPTER III. " We cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the heart resides: The spirit bloweth and is still;...But tasks in hours of insight will'd, Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd." AEWOLD. A YEAR passed at Middlethorpe happily and quietly away. Clare's... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...chang'd his lot: We would not change it now. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...now. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit blowcth and is still, In mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ;... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - English fiction - 1857 - 324 pages
...absence of more definite authority. Be ft rcay. CHAPTER XIV. We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth , and is...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'.l. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...finds himself, loses his misery." MATTHEW ARNOLD. MORALITY. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet . We dig and heap, lay stone on stone... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...' Resolve to be thyself! and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery!' MORALITY. "\ 1 7"E cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart...But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;... | |
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