 Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave, Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles ; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.  Scribner's Magazine - 537 psl.redagavo - 1888Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 psl.
...In the little poem " A Question," the sad and tragic side of life finds beautiful expression : — "Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then Both... | |
 | Otto Luitpold Jiriczek - 1907 - 518 psl.
...fail, when man is gone. A QUESTION. TO FAUSTA. [The Strayed Reveller etc. 1849, ud Tit. To Fausta.] Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then Both... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1908 - 328 psl.
...remain.' When a poet is dead we turn to his verse with quickened feelings. He rests from his labours. We still ' Stem across the sea of life by night,'...earth but from the strange cold caverns of death. 1 Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave, Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1908 - 460 psl.
...laughter But never once respond, And feet that fly on feathers, 17 And serpent-circled wand. AE HOUSMAN JOY comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave, Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles ; and then, Both... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 348 psl.
...and barren, and sharp as the sea — Oh! set us free." So in his poem "A Question " he says : — " Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave ; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men, Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles ; and then, Both... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 psl.
...be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ARIOSTO — Orlando Furioso. XXVIII. 89. 9 not loose; for those you make unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then. Both... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 404 psl.
...remain. When a poet is dead we turn to his verse with quickened feelings. He rests from his labours. We still Stem across the sea of life by night, and...goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave ; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then. Both... | |
 | Arthur Stephen Hoyt - 1924 - 314 psl.
...a beat of thy joy! One of his earliest poems ("To Fausta") expresses his questioning view of life. Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave! Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles ; and then, Both... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 psl.
...difference with his fellow man compos'd, Shall be left standing face to face with God. TO FAUSTA ГШ9.1 JOY comes and goes : hope ebbs and flows, Like the wave. Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles : and then. Both... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1924 - 784 psl.
...the beginning of 1850 there is a contribution by one of Wordsworth's most discriminating admirers : ' Joy comes and goes ; hope ebbs and flows Like the wave. Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles : and then, Both... | |
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