The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyH. Holt, 1907 - 388 páginas |
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... earth . ” Keats , on the other hand , loved nature for her own sake , and gave slight thought to the infusion , of spiritual meaning into what he saw . His was the more absolute vision , which is neither obscured nor heightened , as the ...
... earth . ” Keats , on the other hand , loved nature for her own sake , and gave slight thought to the infusion , of spiritual meaning into what he saw . His was the more absolute vision , which is neither obscured nor heightened , as the ...
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... earth , and all ye need to know . " " That large utterance of the early gods . " " Those green - robed senators of ... earth's human shores . " The fame of the poet is secure who can bring us such gifts as these . He has achieved " The ...
... earth , and all ye need to know . " " That large utterance of the early gods . " " Those green - robed senators of ... earth's human shores . " The fame of the poet is secure who can bring us such gifts as these . He has achieved " The ...
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... earth The beauty wore of promise . " Professor Woodberry says : " When Shelley began to think and feel , and became a living soul , the first flush of dawn had gone by ; but the same hope- fulness sprang up in him , it was invincible ...
... earth The beauty wore of promise . " Professor Woodberry says : " When Shelley began to think and feel , and became a living soul , the first flush of dawn had gone by ; but the same hope- fulness sprang up in him , it was invincible ...
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... Earth ! reality of heaven ! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe , aspire ; Thou consummation of all mortal hope ! Thou glorious prize of blindly - working will ! Whose rays , diffused ...
... Earth ! reality of heaven ! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe , aspire ; Thou consummation of all mortal hope ! Thou glorious prize of blindly - working will ! Whose rays , diffused ...
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... earth of that vision , " Mild was the slow necessity of death : The tranquil spirit failed beneath its grasp , Without a groan , almost without a fear , Calm as a voyager to some distant land , And full of wonder , full of hope as he ...
... earth of that vision , " Mild was the slow necessity of death : The tranquil spirit failed beneath its grasp , Without a groan , almost without a fear , Calm as a voyager to some distant land , And full of wonder , full of hope as he ...
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Página 133 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Página 53 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 49 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 208 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Página 240 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Página 248 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Página 129 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 248 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 233 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Página 132 - The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude ; the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.