 The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown success ; That all the oracles are dumb or cheat Because they have no secret to express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncertain Because there is no light beyond...  Shelburne Essays: Fifth series - Page 186by Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavor, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : ' The sense that every struggle brings defeat, Because fate holds no prize to crown...can pierce the vast black veil uncertain, Because 'here is no light beyond the curtain, That all is vanity and nothingness. ***** ' The moving moon and... | |
 | Ernest Belfort Bax, James Leigh Joynes, F. Bland, Hubert Bland - Socialism - 1883 - 650 pages
...sabre That mighty heart of hearts ends bitter war. In her face he sees The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because fate holds no prize to crown...uncertain Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; But all is vanity and nothingness. Is this the expression on the face of humanity ? Does toiling... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1888 - 698 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and thrcne, Over the river with its isles and bridges, The marsh and moorland, to the stern rock-ridges,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncerta:n Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil unccrta'n Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard: The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncerta'n Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...express ; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncerta'/i Because there is no light beyond the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic... | |
 | James Thomson - 1895 - 504 pages
...Encompassing her passionate endeavour, Dawns glooming in her tenebrous regard : The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...black veil uncertain Because there is no light beyond the..qujrJtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness. Titanic from her high throne in the north, That... | |
 | Clement King Shorter - English - 1897 - 248 pages
...note of pessimism which was always characteristic of the writer : — " The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness." A poet whom one names with peculiar reverence is Thomas Aubrey de Vere, the son of Sir Aubrey 1814de... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - Immortality - 1897 - 158 pages
...few. The number is small of those who are permanently paralyzed with " The sense that every struggle brings defeat Because Fate holds no prize to crown...vast black veil uncertain Because there is no light behind the curtain ; That all is vanity and nothingness." Beyond all these is the Miltonic mood as... | |
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