Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold ; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told. College Readings in English Prose - Página 568editado por - 1914 - 653 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1917 - 1262 páginas
...sack on his shoulder pricked on with the goad, The man with too weighty a burden, too heavy a load. "Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the...The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth: (Ours) be the dirt and the dross, the dust and the scum of the earth. "Theirs be the music, the color,... | |
| John Masefield - 1913 - 144 páginas
...bent at the halliards putting a tune to the shout, The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired lookout. Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and 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 maimed, of the... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1914 - 442 páginas
...in "A Consecration" to his "Salt- Water Ballads," they are "the scorned — the rejected — . . . the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Their moments of exaltation, their visions of beauty are mingled with misery, and excess, and crime.... | |
| John Masefield - 1916 - 328 páginas
...at the halliards putting a tune to the shout, The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired lookout. 1 Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and 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 maimed, of the... | |
| John Masefield - 1916 - 144 páginas
...bent at the halliards putting a tune to the shout, The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired lookout. Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the...dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth I THEIRS be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould.... | |
| John Masefield - 1916 - 332 páginas
...man at the wheel and the tired lookout. 1 Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirtk, The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth...Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of th earth ! THEIRS be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 páginas
...snakes. In a book published even earlier, Salt-Water Ballads (1902), we find this hymn of Consecration : Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and 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 maimed, of the... | |
| John Masefield - 1918 - 550 páginas
...bent at the halliards putting a tune to the shout, The drowsy man at the wheel and the tired lookout. Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and 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 maimed, of the... | |
| Clarence Edward Andrews - 1918 - 352 páginas
...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 páginas
...— 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... | |
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