...own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense. Julian and Maddalo. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.2 Ibid. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne,...

...afterwards seemed to lapse into calmness and quietness. As Shelley sings : — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Every man who has passed through trouble cannot express his feelings, because he has not the genius...

...few familiar quotations from Shelley's poems occurs in Julian and Maddalo : — Jfost wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Byron lent the Shelleys his villa of the Cappuccini near Este, where they spent some weeks in the autumn....

...his are, is one more illustration of Shelley's theory that suffering is educational, and that "Men Are cradled into Poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering- what they teach in song." Meantime John Blyth, David's younger brother, had followed his example. He sailed in the ' Arab,' a...

...memoiy ! Odours when sweet violets sicken Live within the sense they quicken. To Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Julian and HatUlilo. Kings are like stars — they rise and set — they have The worship of the world,...

...were called poetry, And I remember one remark which then i Maddalo made. He said : " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man I, from this moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet...

...popularity in future years ; and then remember his sad fate. Shelley wrote that — Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. And then wonder that the poet replied only with the high scorn of this great mind — There are who...

...from which we have learned a larger patience, a higher wisdom, a wider charity. Men, says Shelley, are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song. And that is just as true of piety as it is of poetry. If you discover in an author, or a preacher,...

...were called poetry, And I remember one remark which then Maddalo made. He said : " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man I, from this moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet...

...so. Shelley tells us that " most wretched men " — meaning thereby the world's great singers — " Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song ; " and we know that the crushed flower gives forth the rarest fragrance. It is not always true that...