 With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander : With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander ; With a knight of ghosts and shadows, I summoned am to Tourney : Ten leagues beyond The wide world's end ; Methinks it is no...  Curiosities of Literature - Page 317by Isaac Disraeli - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1914 - 280 pages
...till the fire died out and the contracting iron cracked in the silence of the night. 236 CHAPTER XV With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander;...beyond the wide world's end, Methinks it is no journey. 'Tom a' Bedlam's Song. OOD-BYE, Bess; I promised you fifty. Here's a hundred — all that I got for... | |
 | Walter De la Mare - Circus performer - 1921 - 396 pages
...pride or shame, had stuck in my throat on the skin mat in Lady Pollacke's sky-lit drawing-room : — 'With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander...The wide world's end; Methinks it is no journey.' Parasol for spear, the youngest Miss Shanks's pony for horse of air, there was I (even though common-sized... | |
 | William Shirley Tomkinson - English language - 1921 - 248 pages
...singing robes, have been singularly able men of business. Of poet and child it may be equally well said : With a heart of furious fancies. Whereof I am commander...Tourney : . Ten leagues beyond The wide world's end Is the measure of my journey. Moreover, the language of the poet is a language in its essence understanded... | |
 | North American review - 1922 - 876 pages
...of Tom o' Bedlam as was to inspire the Midget years later, to answer her summons to life's tourney : With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander:...beyond The wide world's end; Methinks it is no journey. Henry Brocken's journey begins placidly enough — almost, indeed, unawares. He sets off as usual for... | |
 | Walter De la Mare - Circus performers - 1922 - 444 pages
...pride or shame, had stuck in my throat on the skin mat in Lady Pollacke's sky-lit drawing-room : — "With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander:...spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. Wilh a knight of ghosts and shadows, I summoned am to tourney: Ten leagues beyond The wide world's... | |
 | Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor - Australian literature - 1923 - 310 pages
...mistress, And the lovely owl my morrow : The flaming drake And the night-crow make Me music, to my sorrow. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander:...beyond The wide world's end: Methinks it is no journey ! 34 The shadows plot against me, And lie in ambush for me : The stars conspire, And a net of fire... | |
 | John Galsworthy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1923 - 278 pages
...GALSWORTHY NEW YORK COPVWGHT, 1923, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in the'United States of America "With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air In the wilderness I wander; With a night of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney Ten leagues... | |
 | John Galsworthy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1923 - 280 pages
...Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air In the wilderness I wander ; With a night of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney Ten leagues beyond the wide world's endFor me it is no journey." TOM O'BEDLAM. FOREWORD To the readers of this farcical chronicle it may... | |
 | Vera Meynell, Francis Meynell, John Goss - English poetry - 1927 - 396 pages
...fancies, Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear And a horse of air To the wilderness I wander ; By a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney...The wide world's end — Methinks it is no journey. Anonymous. THERE IS A LADY SWEET AND KIND THERE is a Lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleas'd... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1869 - 252 pages
...With a heart of furious fancies Whereof I am commander ; Wiih a horse of air, and a spear of fire, To the wilderness I wander. With a knight of ghosts and shadows 1 summoned am to journey, Ten leagues beyond the wide-world's end ; Methinks it is no journey !" But... | |
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