 AFTERWARDS When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, 'He was a man who used to notice such things'? If it be...  War Department Education Manual - 29 psl.autoriai: United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 psl.
...to quote in full, but the first three verses will be sufficient to illustrate what I have said : nn When the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings. Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say: " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's... | |
 | 1928 - 556 psl.
...song. His own epitaph is in those haunting lines that close the 1920 edition of the Complete Poems: AFTERWARDS When the present has latched its postern...its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new spun silk, will the neighbors say, 'He was a man who used to notice such things'? If I pass during... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 284 psl.
...Better close no prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern...May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate -filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, " He was a man who used to notice such things"... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 372 psl.
...love, obedience, troops of friends. The last poem in Moments of Vision blesses rather than curses life. AFTERWARDS When the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say "He was a man who used to notice such things"? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 260 psl.
...long to quote in full, but the first three verses will be sufficient to illustrate what I have said : When the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say : " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's... | |
 | 1919 - 402 psl.
...day decays. It will be word enough of praise.' In poems as in novels he is very close to nature : ' When the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? ' If I pass during some nocturnal blackness,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 578 psl.
...Better close no prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1920 - 400 psl.
...be as unbegun. Your face, and a God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with greyish leaves. \ When the Present has latched its postern behind my...May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings. One wonders how such a poet came to be our contemporary, and not the contemporary of Shakespeare. And... | |
 | Marie Bernadette King - 1923 - 544 psl.
...face. Where shining spaces wait to fill with me, Death is the beautiful and bitter sea. WINIFRED WELLES AFTERWARDS WHEN the present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's... | |
 | Paul Jordan-Smith - 1924 - 304 psl.
...than a heart that knows and loves nature, and is kind, came that final poem in "Moments of Vision" : When the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's... | |
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