The Call of the CityP. Elder, 1908 - 103 páginas |
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attract Austin Dobson beauty blessed building tops castle rises Charles Lamb charm Christmas spirit city of dreams city square city street city thoroughfare city's Company consciousness dark doubtless enjoy enjoyment eyes face fall fancy fascinate feel fête day fire fish Fleet Street forest of history gleam glow hear heart holiday HOPE FOR CITIES human hurrying indolence interest jewels lamps laugh laughter light look ment mood morning mysterious night pass PAUL ELDER pavements Phyllida Phyllis play pleasure reindeer roar of traffic robbers hiding ROCHESTER romance Santa Claus season seems seen shadows silent sleeping world smile soft song spires splendid stair In Angel-Court stars stirs story stream sure swinging tangle and cross tempting thought threads tired town trees UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unperplexed vision walk warm weather wild flowers William Wordsworth wind wonderful Year's day zest
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Página 91 - HAD I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square ; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there...
Página 60 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Página 35 - ... Street! Fleet Street! Fleet Street in the noontide, East and west the streets packed close, and roaring like the sea; With laughter and with sobbing we feel the world's heart throbbing, And know that what is throbbing is the heart of you and me. Fleet Street! Fleet Street! Fleet Street in the evening, Darkness set with golden lamps down Ludgate Hill a-row: Oh ! hark the voice o' th' city that breaks our hearts with pity, That crazes us with shame and wrath, and makes us love her so. Fleet Street!...
Página 11 - The Appearance^ instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty City — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wond'rous depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there towers begirt E 5 With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars...
Página 34 - STREET ! Fleet Street ! Fleet Street in -*- the morning, With the old sun laughing out behind the dome of Paul's, Heavy wains a-driving, merry winds a-striving, White clouds and blue sky above the smokestained walls. Fleet Street! Fleet Street! Fleet Street in the noontide, East and west the streets packed close, and roaring like the sea ; With laughter and with sobbing we feel the world's heart throbbing, And know that what is throbbing is the heart of you and me. Fleet Street ! Fleet Street ! Fleet...
Página 11 - And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires...
Página 73 - THE ladies of St. James's Go swinging to the play; Their footmen run before them, With a "Stand by! Clear the way!" But Phyllida, my Phyllida! She takes her buckled shoon, When we go out a-courting Beneath the harvest moon.
Página 19 - In Angel-court the sunless air Grows faint and sick ; to left and right The cowering houses shrink from sight Huddled and hopeless, eyeless, bare. Misnamed, you say ? For surely rare Must be the angel-shapes that light In Angel-court. Nay ! the Eternities are there. Death at the doorway stands to smite ; Life in its garrets leaps to flight ; And Love has climbed the crumbling stair In Angel-court.
Página 65 - Jerusalem," and Paul threw himself into the cities of the ancient world, as offering the most commanding positions of influence. Cities have been as lamps of light, along the pathway of humanity and religion. Within them science has given birth to her noblest discoveries. Behind their walls freedom has fought her noblest battles. They have stood on the surface of the earth like great breakwaters, rolling back or turning aside the swelling tide of oppression. Cities indeed have been the cradles of...
Página 69 - Bent bridges, seeming to strain off like bows, And tremble while the arrowy undertide Shoots on and cleaves the marble as it goes, And strikes up palace walls on either side, And froths the cornice out in glittering rows, "With doors and windows quaintly multiplied, And terrace-sweeps, and gazers upon all, By whom if flower or kerchief were thrown out From any lattice there, the same would fall Into the river underneath no doubt, It...