 RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy...  The Cheltonian - Page 192by Cheltenham College - 1868Full view - About this book
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 lehte
...WoundDresser," and the solemnly tender "Reconciliation," so brief and simple, and yet so deeply satisfying : "Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must hi time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again,... | |
 | William Taylor - 1922 - 162 lehte
...been steadily employed to complete and delight me. Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul, etc. Hands of the sisters, Death and Night .incessantly, softly wash again and ever again this soil'd world." "When once," Bacon says, "the mind has placed before it noble aims, it is immediately... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 lehte
...hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soil'd world; Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, 1 look where he lies white-faced and still in... | |
 | Bruce Weirick - 1924 - 272 lehte
...the sublime calm and peace of his poem "Reconciliation," symbol of the union of the North and South: "Word over all beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that...incessantly softly wash again, and ever again this soil'd world: For my enemy is dead — a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1926 - 242 lehte
...sacrifices one kind of beauty it needs all the more of another. So when Whitman writes his Reconciliation : Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world ; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 lehte
...a spirit of reconciliation, but the reconciliation he envisions occurs not in life but in death, as "the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world" (Sequel, p. 23). As in Melville's "Magnanimity Baffled," in which the Northern conqueror... | |
 | Cecil Day Lewis - 1992 - 772 lehte
...indignation That channels the dry heart deeper And sings through the dry bone. I938 3I0 TO ROSAMOND LEHMANN Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...softly wash again, and ever again, this soiled world. WALT WHITMAN PART ONE The Lighted House 315 The Album 316 The Hunter's Game 3I7 Departure in the Dark... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...AWP; HAP; HelP; MoAmPo; NAAL-1; NAWM-2; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; PoE; PoEL-5; Prim; TAP; WeW Reconciliation 69 Press — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. (1. 4—6)... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1993 - 150 lehte
...arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 lehte
...US author, editor. Essays ofE. B. White, "A Report in January" ( 1 977; first published 1 958). 25 list ڎ, WALT WHITMAN (1819-92), US poet. "Reconciliation,26 I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances... | |
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