 | 1891 - 740 pages
...mine, Ye scarce would win my love. Again : My spirit was sad when I was young Ah, sorrowful long ago, But since I have found the beauty of joy, I have done...howsoe'er man hug his care, The best of his art is gay. Gaiety is not so much the mark of the poems as the resolute happiness of a courageous spirit. The example... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1899 - 308 pages
...field. See ! sleep hath fallen : the trees are asleep : The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep. YE thrilled me once, ye mournful strains, Ye anthems...wiped away ; Or drops of the shower when rain is o'er, SAY who is this with silvered hair, So pale and worn and thin, Who passeth here, and passeth there,... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1914 - 404 pages
...gravest mood or subject can scarcely change, because the poet has learned the secret of wisdom : " Ye thrilled me once, ye mournful strains, Ye anthems...howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his art is gay." The critic proceeds to deal with the " beauty of joy " and the joyousness of love and the characteristically... | |
 | 1914 - 780 pages
...change, the flux of matter—these things incline him to a grave music, despite his own proclamation: But since I have found the beauty of joy I have done...howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his art is gay. Now the best of his art is not gay. The best of his art is the lyric that muses, that ponders, that... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - 1920 - 280 pages
...mind. He has never felt with sufficient intensity to be a great poet. He has written of himself— " But since I have found the beauty of joy I have done with proud dismay: For howsoe'r man hug his care The best of his art is gay." And if a pensive melancholy visits Mr Bridges,... | |
 | Norman Davey - 1921 - 296 pages
...sorrow without suffering myself ? One of you poet fellows — Bridges, wasn't it ? — said : — " ' For howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his art is gay.' I wish to God I'd remembered that tag when I was spouting my piece. Why the hell didn't I ask to paint... | |
 | Norman Davey - 1921 - 300 pages
...sorrow without suffering myself? One of you poet fellows — Bridges, wasn't it ? — said : — " Tor howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his art is gay.' I wish to God I'd remembered that tag when I was spouting my piece. Why the hell didn't I ask to paint... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - 1925 - 554 pages
...sufficient intensity to be a great poet. He has written of himself — " But since I have found tKe beauty of joy I have done with proud dismay : For...man hug his care The best of his art is gay." And if a pensive melancholy visits Mr. Bridges, the " proud dismay " of greater poets can hardly have touched... | |
 | 1899 - 1430 pages
...well repaid. The burden of the next number, " Ye thrilled me once," written by Robert Bridges, is, " For howsoe'er man hug his care, The best of his art is gay," and this healthy sentiment permeates the music. Some effective contrasts are, however, suggested by the... | |
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YE thrilled me once, ye mournful strains, Ye anthems of plaintive woe, My spirit was sad when I was young ; Ah sorrowful long-ago ! But since I have found the beauty of joy I have done with proud dismay : For howsoe'er man hug his care The best of his... 