Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... tears of joy he smiled , And while he raised the tendril wild His lips o'erflowed with praise . “ ' Oh , shall not He who keeps thee green , Here in the waste , unknown , unseen- Thy fellow exile save ? He who commands the dew to feed ...
... tears of joy he smiled , And while he raised the tendril wild His lips o'erflowed with praise . “ ' Oh , shall not He who keeps thee green , Here in the waste , unknown , unseen- Thy fellow exile save ? He who commands the dew to feed ...
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... tears - and ours is not a rock - if it be , ' tis the Rock of Horeb . It has long been well known to the whole world that we are a sad egotist — yet our egotism , so far from being a detraction from our attraction , seems to be the very ...
... tears - and ours is not a rock - if it be , ' tis the Rock of Horeb . It has long been well known to the whole world that we are a sad egotist — yet our egotism , so far from being a detraction from our attraction , seems to be the very ...
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... tears were shed , For shelter and a poor man's bread ! " The same noble boy whom his highborn mother in dis- astrous days , had confided when an infant to the care of a peasant . Yet there he is no longer safe - and " The boy must part ...
... tears were shed , For shelter and a poor man's bread ! " The same noble boy whom his highborn mother in dis- astrous days , had confided when an infant to the care of a peasant . Yet there he is no longer safe - and " The boy must part ...
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... tear the " meteor standard to the winds unfurled , " from his cloudy hands . There you stand- and were you to rear your summits much higher into heaven you would alarm the hidden stars . Yet we have seen you higher - but it was in storm ...
... tear the " meteor standard to the winds unfurled , " from his cloudy hands . There you stand- and were you to rear your summits much higher into heaven you would alarm the hidden stars . Yet we have seen you higher - but it was in storm ...
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... a new version of the old story - the impassioned poet is still flesh and blood - and the child of the elements , aerial as she seems , or of illu- mined tears , or lambent fire that burns not , CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . 49.
... a new version of the old story - the impassioned poet is still flesh and blood - and the child of the elements , aerial as she seems , or of illu- mined tears , or lambent fire that burns not , CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . 49.
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Página 49 - Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 341 - OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night...
Página 45 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love...
Página 48 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest noW.
Página 45 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Página 44 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Página 43 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Página 334 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ;' Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Página 335 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Página 46 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.