 | 1896 - 854 psl.
...a kindred conclusion; and, even in such a poem as "A Southern Night," we are again admonished that We see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess one soul Before we die. Surely It would not be difficult to show that, as a criticism of life, the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1884 - 548 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-filled breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by ; And never once possess our soul Before we die. Professor Seeley may well raise the question whether a civilization of this shallow, noisy, weary kind... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - 1861 - 374 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from Pole to Pole, And glance, and...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. Xot by those hoary Indian Hills, Not by this gracious Midland Sea Whose floor to-night sweet moonshine... | |
 | Victoria regia - 1861 - 378 psl.
...troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And HOC all «ights from Pole to Pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. Not by those hoary Indian Hills, Not by this gracious Midland Sea Whose floor to-night sweet moonshine... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-filled breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. Not by those hoary Indian hills, Some sage, to whom the world was dead, And men were specks, and life... | |
 | 1868 - 598 psl.
...volume. There are several deeply reflective and captivating verses in it, and wholesome truths. And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. " Youth's Agitations," and " Growing Old," are infected with morbidity. Unless schooled by religion... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by ; And never once possess our soul Before we die. Not by those hoary Indian hills, Not by this gracious Midland sea, Whose floor to-night sweet moonshine... | |
 | 1875 - 844 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-filled breast The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East. And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. And almost every man, however practical, feels this obscurely ; has a notion that his own life is a... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 psl.
...Nature that is ours ; We have given our souls away, a sordid boon ;" or, in which, as another expresses it, we " See all sights from pole to pole, And glance,...; And never once possess our soul Before we die." 3. Now to both these common characters this text offers an antidote; to the self-satisfied, a confidence... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 psl.
...Nature that is ours ; We have given our souls away, a sordid boon ; " or, in which, as another expresses it, we " See all sights from pole to pole, And glance,...; And never once possess our soul Before we die." 3. Now to both these common characters this text offers an antidote ; to the self-satisfied, a confidence... | |
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. 
