The Bookman, Volumen 57Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923 |
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Página 284 - ... the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
Página 121 - UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Página 109 - A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfilment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
Página 84 - Therefore since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Página 84 - Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. 'Tis true the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale: Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land.
Página 188 - Having inherited a vigorous mind From my old fathers, I must nourish dreams And leave a woman and a man behind As vigorous of mind, and yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
Página 415 - It is to show its vibration, its colour, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its colour, reveal the substance of its truth— disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment.
Página 83 - I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 1 895 I wrote the greater part of my other book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came...
Página 136 - We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected on to them; we are disillusioned when we find that they are in reality devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas...
Página 189 - My love came up from Barnegat, The sea was in his eyes; He trod as softly as a cat And told me terrible lies. His hair was yellow as new-cut pine In shavings curled and feathered; I thought how silver it would shine By cruel winters weathered. But he was in his twentieth year, This time I'm speaking of; We were head over heels in love with fear And half a-feared of love.