 WEARY of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire O'er the sea and to the stars I send : "Ye who from my childhood...  With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields - Página 60por John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 84 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Harold Crawford Stearns - 1923 - 226 páginas
...which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. SELF-DEPENDENCE Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and...the stars I send : "Ye who from my childhood up have calmed me, Calm me, ah, compose me to the end ! "Ah, once more," I cried, "ye stars, ye waters, On... | |
 | Hugh Robert Mill - 1923 - 368 páginas
...hid even Orion and left Sirius himself an inconspicuous spark. CHAPTER II THE ENDURANCE. 1913-1915 " Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and...stars I send ; ' Ye who from my childhood up have calmed me, Calm me, ah, compose me to lie end I ' Ah I once more I cried, ' Ye stars, ye waters On... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 páginas
...others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live. SELF-DEPENDENCE) (1852) Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and...o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire 5 O'er the sea and to the stars I send: "Ye who from my childhood up have calmed me, Calm me, ah, compose... | |
 | Colorado College - 1904 - 596 páginas
...the balance is strongly on the side of hope. Discouragement appears only in the opening couplet: " Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be;" but from stars and sea he draws an inspiring lesson which speaks to the heart of mankind: "And with... | |
 | 1922 - 616 páginas
...a poem bearing the characteristic title of "Self-Dependence," has voiced with accuracy this ideal: Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and...who from my childhood up have calm'd me, Calm me, oh, compose me to the end! "Ah, once more," I cried, "ye stars, ye waters, On my heart your mighty... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 páginas
...volume. The poem begins with the speaker's expression of disgust with his own dilemma of indecision: Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and...bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. (1-4) He then looks, as he has done since childhood, to the stars for calm and for guidance. The message... | |
 | Robert Pinsky - 1978 - 204 páginas
...language and statement which The Dream Songs use, using them in order to reject them. Arnold begins, "Weary of myself, and sick of asking/ What I am and what I ought to be." Standing at a ship's prow, he addresses the "starlit sea" and the stars, which have "calmed" him since... | |
 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 páginas
...Margaret Sanger, leading English abolitionist Josephine Butler, and German suffragist Hedwig Dohm. "I was weary of myself and sick of asking what I am and what I ought to be," recalls Gilman, who later went on to write a fictional account of her mental breakdown in the chilling... | |
 | Amanda Anderson, Joseph Valente - 2002 - 364 páginas
...482.25-26). This is also why the speaker of "Self-Dependence," first published in the same year, claims to be "Weary of myself, and sick of asking / What I am and what I ought to be" (239.1-2). We learn most about the failure of Arnold's cultural project, in this respect, by addressing... | |
 | Catherine Gourley - 2003 - 100 páginas
...to live in a really living world. . . ." Later, in her autobiography, she would admit that she was "weary of myself and sick of asking, What I am and what I ought to be. . . ."4 Ida B. Wells felt the same vague discontent as Jane Addams. She was born the daughter of slaves... | |
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