 I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day. I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by.  The Strand Magazine - Page 330edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Languages, Modern - 1909 - 524 pages
...I never saw a man who looked With such a wistfull eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisouers call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went, With sails of silver by. RG I 11—18. cf. I 34; II 5—12, 32; IV 17, 18, 19—24. The characters having been thus presented... | |
 | Trist Wood - 1898 - 300 pages
...I never law a man who looked With such a iriatful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prinoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by. A little further on we are told that The man had killed the thing he loved And to he had to die. In... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - History - 1898 - 80 pages
...white with fear, And that man's face was gray, And I never saw sad men who looked I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every careless cloud that passed In happy freedom by. But there... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Law - 1898 - 84 pages
...face was gray, And I never saw sad men who looked So wistfully at the day. 20 • I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every careless cloud that passed In happy freedom by. But there... | |
 | Marie Theresa Villiers Earle - Cooking, English - 1899 - 490 pages
...too could see over the opposite roof that little square of blue which suggested these two verses : I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye...of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by. He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless... | |
 | Maria Theresa Earle ("Mrs. C. W. Earle, ") - Gardening - 1899 - 502 pages
...too could see over the opposite roof that little square of blue which suggested these two verses : I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye...of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by. He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 pages
...man's face was grey, And I never saw sad men who looked THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every careless cloud that passed In happy freedom by. But there... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - English poetry - 1906 - 60 pages
...saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day. I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful «ye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by. To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Authors, Irish - 1906 - 176 pages
...man's face was gray, And I never saw sad men who looked So wistfully at the day. I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every careless cloud that passed In happy freedom by. But there... | |
 | Holger Drachmann - 1908 - 138 pages
...eclectic aestheticism are broken down, and he is overcome by a great emotional flood of pity and terror. ' I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye...drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by. ' I walked with other souls in pain Within another ring, And wondered if the man had done A great or... | |
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