BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art :— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's... Hearst's International - Página 4971908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1899 - 28 páginas
...best cleansers. We embark on the sea and watch the great tides of human life, of action and passion, 'The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores.' And yet we may claim a part in the greatest of these movements. Some have found an enlarging and purifying... | |
| John Keats - 1900 - 500 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : No — yet still steadfast,... | |
| John Keats - 1921 - 260 páginas
..." and associated always with comforting and restoration." She cites from his last sonnet the lines The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. The sonnet on Hunt's ' Simini ' was given in the Literary Eemains next to the preceding, and dated... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast,... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No— yet still steadfast,... | |
| Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 442 páginas
...inanimate objects, eg : And watch.ng, with eternal lids apart Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. — KEATS. Personification when not used to excess stimulates the fancy and gives reality to abstractions.... | |
| Robert Naylor Whiteford - 1903 - 464 páginas
...aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, \ \ 5 The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast,... | |
| Bowyer Nichols - 1903 - 300 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors, — No — yet still steadfast,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 666 páginas
...hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast,... | |
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