...should the age in which he " But poets should ; should have eyes ihensively of sight, at strive for No character or glory in his times, And trundles back...years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castlecourt, Oh not to sing of lizards or of toads Alive i' the ditch there ! — 'twere excusable; But of some...

...point of sight, And distant things, as intimately deep, As if they touched them. Let us strive for tku. I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or...years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, Oh not to sing of lizards or of toads Alive i' the ditch there ! — 'twere excusable ; But of some...

...of sight, And distant things, as intimately deep, As if they touched them. Let us strive for this. I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or...years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, Oh not to sing of Lizards or of toads Alive i' the ditch there ! — 'twere excusable ; But of some...

...of sight, And distant things, as intimately deep, As if they touched them. Let us strive for this. I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or...years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, Oh not to sing of Lizards or of toads Alive i' the ditch there ! — 'twere excusable ; But of some...

...were spent in delineating a past age, an age of remarkable artificiality. What says the poetess ? " I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or...five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle court; 0, not to sing of lizards or of toads Alive i' the ditch there! — 't were excusable;...

...were spent in delineating a past age, an age of remarkable artificiality. What says the poetess ? " I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times, And trundles back Ms soul five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle court; 0, not to sing of lizards...

...Intimately deep, AB if they touched them. Let us strive for this. I do distrust tho poet who discerní No character or glory In his times, And trundles back his soul flvo hundred years. Past moat and drawbridge, Into a castle-court, Oh not to sing of lizards or of...

...If, then, the universal witness of the human heart justified Mrs. Browning in her " Distrust " of " The poet who discerns No character or glory in his...five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle court," the successive laureates of that lucky house of Este ought to have been poetically dead...

...of sight, And distant things, as intimately deep, As if they touched them. Let us strive for this. I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times, And trundles hack his soul five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, Oh not to sing of...

...represent the very age in which she is living, its manners and its thoughts. She says very justly : — ' I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times ; Hut trundles back his soul five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into castle courts.' As...