 There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark...  The Open Door: Sermons and Prayers - Seite 346von Oscar C. McCulloch - 1892 - 438 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1928 - 154 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture ! In a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." It is impossible that this poem, with its triumphant clash at the end of it, could in any way represent... | |
 | 1916 - 1054 Seiten
...misery of failure. Ranged along the hillsides they stood, those who had lost the battle. " And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. ' Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came? '' When all seems lost, the unconquerable soul sounds its note of triumph. This supreme experience... | |
 | John Drakakis - 1981 - 300 Seiten
...dream that is full of meaning.' Browning's poem ends with a challenge blown on a trumpet: ' "And yet / Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set / And blew 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' ". Note well the words "And yet". Roland did not have to - he did not wish to and yet in the end he... | |
 | Mary Breckinridge - 1981 - 404 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." I have written of my first meeting with Adeline Cashmore, in England at York. "The great man is the... | |
 | 1925 - 790 Seiten
...Roland to the Dark Tower Came. What is the meaning of this poem, with its last lines so infinitely sad? Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set* And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Toieer tame." A vague and simple meaning, I think : the sadness of human victories; that things never... | |
 | Susan Howe - 1985 - 146 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." (v. 34) Poetry is the great stimulation of life. Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration... | |
 | Adena Rosmarin - 1985 - 218 Seiten
...critical pattern of the poem's power. For the significance of Roland's concluding gestureDauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." (11. 203-4) to reenact Roland's seemingly purposeless quest and, as well, to know its purpose and pleasure.... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1986 - 366 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture; in a sheet of flame I saw them and 1 knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." (XXXIV) The vengeful predecessors, "met / to view the last of me," take us back to the jealous "bents"... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture! in a sheet of name I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set. And blew. ' Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, LURIA A TRAGEDY 1846 I DEDICATE THE LAST ATTEMPT FOR THE PRESENT AT DRAMATIC POETRY TO A GREAT DRAMATIC... | |
 | Gordon R. Dickson - 1996 - 356 Seiten
...me, a living frame For one more picture! In a sheet of flame / saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew." "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The path he had chosen for himself had led him to the cell on Harmony. And the path he had chosen for... | |
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