 | John White Chadwick - 1899 - 246 sivua
...metaphor expresses the same idea in a form that makes a less unique demand on our imagination : — " With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...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." You have seen, last... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1899 - 196 sivua
..."Monica's Last Prayer," "Early Death and Fame," "The Youth of Man," and "Mortality," in which he sings: With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat O£ the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built, do we... | |
 | 1900 - 374 sivua
...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,...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. MATTHEW ARNOLD. TOIL... | |
 | Mary Cholmondeley - 1900 - 392 sivua
...poaching on her manor. "All sensible women have been agreed for years on that point." CHAPTER XXIII With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ,twere done I Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. —MATTHEW ARNOLD.... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 186 sivua
...system of knowledge, and is all but entirely lost. CHAPTER V THE ILLUSTRIOUS GEOMETER (450-300 BC) With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...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. MATTHEW ARNOLD. THE... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 186 sivua
...system of knowledge, and is all but entirely lost. CHAPTER V THE ILLUSTRIOUS GEOMETER (450-300 BC) With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...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. MATTHEW ARNOLD. THE... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 sivua
...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight wili'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,...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. Then, when the clouds... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1903 - 136 sivua
...spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands...the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done; Nor till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern. Then, when the clouds... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 348 sivua
...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,...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. Then, when the clouds... | |
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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. 
