 | Upton Sinclair - Justice - 1915 - 978 pages
.... . . I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life.... | |
 | Thomas Mott Osborne - Corrections - 1916 - 264 pages
...sings the poet of Reading Gaol: I know not whether Laws be right Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That Men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,... | |
 | George Allan England - Authors, American - 1916 - 396 pages
...petition for a pardon, Slayton's supreme insolence led him to visit his victim in the sad place where Each day is like a year — A year whose days are long. Slayton's purpose in making this trip — like everything he did — was well and cautiously calculated.... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...mourn. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in jail FP/ FP/ FP/ But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...brave man with a sword. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wail is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Ibid. The vilest deeds like poison-weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - English literature - 1920 - 280 pages
...melody, the imagery, all convey a haunting picture of prison cell and highwalled yard, where— "... each day is like a year, A year whose days are long." Wilde here adopts, with immense gain, a simple language in place of a decorative. The poem comes from... | |
 | Private libraries - 1922 - 136 pages
...that period of his life which he passed in gaol and of which he wrote in anguish and in despair: "... 'That each day is like a year, A year whose days are long." The Latin race would not be influenced by the vagaries of his life in reaching at this time an unbiased... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...complain, and have brought it / know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...I once addressed your Lordship / know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,... | |
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I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. 
