 | Wilfrid Ewart - 1934 - 348 pages
...stanzas seems to epitomise that which is changeless in Hardy's peasantry and in our own chaotic time. Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass. III. Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by ; War's annals will cloud into night Ere their... | |
 | Henry Stanley Bennett - 1937 - 400 pages
...poem, In Time of" The Breaking of Nations ", tells us of his fundamental place in the scheme of things: Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and noda Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this... | |
 | 1918 - 916 pages
...has been printed before; for it puts, in the simplest way, the simplest and most fundamental things: Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame PVom the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...ambitious project to the moving simplicity of the poem on the First World War which he wrote in 1915 : Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art. Thomas Hardy IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS' Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - 1989 - 216 pages
...had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on. WH Auden In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk...this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass. IIl Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...earth-bound wilfully! (1. 25-30) EBW; NAEL-2; Prim; TrGrPo; WGRP In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 29 ught (1. 1—4) 30 Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1994 - 978 pages
...insatiate lust of power. IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS '• 511 IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS"1 ONLY a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass ; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Lawrence L. Besserman - 1996 - 278 pages
...done. But poets will not be bidden. As late as 1915 Hardy wrote "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'": I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. D Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1998 - 324 pages
...choirmaster's grave. Such the tenor man told When he had grown old. IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II 5 Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
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Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk, With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though dynasties pass. Yonder a maid and... 
