 IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen...  Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends - 第 21 頁Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) 著 - 1891完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Helen Dawes Brown - 1914 - 110 頁
...wait to judge the two until they are forty. Health is one of your "college duties"; so is happiness. "If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness," — wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a master of gallant living. He really had something to whine... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 頁
...cheerfulness and consuming hatred of sullenness are especially well expressed in the little poem — If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to... | |
 | Joseph Edwards, Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Baron Pethick-Lawrence - 1903 - 332 頁
...child, and disregarding the eye-witnesses. So runs the story, and it looks very much like the truth. " If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake." — Robert Louis Stevenson. " A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools... | |
 | Mary Esther Harding - 1973 - 546 頁
...for such a painful experience, lest his spirit be permanently lost in the final extinction of death: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 680 頁
...into remembering, amid our fusses and fatigues, that there is superlative beauty in the universe — Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. But a much blunter pleasure will suffice for a little boy: being nearer to divine innocence, he is... | |
 | May Sarton - 1988 - 292 頁
...understand it. Now I say it at least once a day, and it helps, though it is not a great poem at all: If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake . . . Thursday, April 10 IF I HAVE learned something in these months of not being well it may be to... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 頁
...crying. My heart remembers how! (1. 1—4) CH; EBW; FaBoPP; NOBE; OBNC; PoSH The Celestial Surgeon 1 Hazen( Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin. And to... | |
 | 2000 - 264 頁
...thought that Robert Louis Stevenson voiced in verse: If I have faltered more or less In my great track of happiness: If I have moved among my race, And shown...pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. And it was this same thought that David himself evidently had, for he concludes his anthem of praise... | |
 | William Barclay - 2001 - 388 頁
...called it - 'a sudden glory'. Robert Louis Stevenson was right, when he wrote in The Celestial Surgeon': If I have faltered more or less In my great task of...pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to... | |
 | David Kavanagh - 2002 - 184 頁
...US might have weakened its resolve." I liked your cunning inclusion of the word 'grave'. OCTOBER 8 "If I have faltered more or less In my great task...food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain:Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake..." -ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON... | |
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