Essays on Poetry and PoetsK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 - 356 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
admirable Æschylus appears Arthur artist assuredly beautiful believe breath Browning Byron Cain called certainly character Chatterton child Coleridge colour Cosette criticism dead death Divine Don Juan dramatic elements emotion Endymion English euphuistic evil expression exquisite eyes faith fancy feeling foam Gauvain genius George Sand Goethe grand Guinevere harmony heart Hugo human humour idea ideal Idyls imagination intellectual J. A. Symonds Keats Lantenac light living look lovers Matthew Arnold mediæval ment metaphor modern moods moral moreover mysterious mystic never noble Pantheism passing passion pathetic pathetic fallacy perfect philosophical picture poem poet poet's poetic poetry Porthcurnow Porthgwarra Roden Noel Ruskin scene seems sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sings song sorrow soul spirit sweet sympathy Tennyson terrible things thought tion true truth Valjean verse Victor Hugo vision voice Walt Whitman Whitman whole woman wonderful words Wordsworth young
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Página 11 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Página 229 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Página 148 - Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain In earth and heaven, in glade and bower Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm* Of mute insensate things.
Página 237 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet...
Página 141 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Página 270 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Página 124 - When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute: — No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring...
Página 161 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 310 - I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
Página 167 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen...