 | Matthew Campbell - 1999 - 292 pages
...irrecoverable time remembered only in the sick and limping rhythms of the once vigorous rendered obsolete. i Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. n Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass: Yet this will go onward the same Though... | |
 | Martin Gilbert - 1997 - 526 pages
...preparing their haystacks. I am reminded of Thomas Hardy's poem, '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... | |
 | Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne - 2000 - 32 pages
...of the Somme, August l9l6. The violence of World War I caused Hardy great anxiety and depression. 66 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 pages
...thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. In Time of The Breaking of Nations' -v> THOMAS HARDY 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... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...saint; the shamrock is its emblem. Patrick, like patrician: noble, is from L pater, patrem: father. Only a man harrowing clods, In a slow silent walk...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... | |
 | Gregory E. Pence - 2002 - 304 pages
...earth is impossible. Sixty years ago, in another time of crisis, I homas Hardy wrote these stanzas: Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With...that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without llame From the heaps ol couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same though... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...and the rest! Love is best! ROBERT BROWNING ENGLISH (1812-1889) 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. in Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story... | |
 | Michael Millgate - 2006 - 329 pages
...for more than forty years before resurrecting it in the second year of the Great War (LW, 82-3, 408). 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... | |
 | Claire Tomalin - 2007 - 536 pages
...inspired by his memory of walking in Cornwall after getting the news of the defeat of the French in 1870. 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... | |
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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... 
