...call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? PB Shelley ccrv GATHERING SONG OF DONALD...

...call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? 1H21. LORD BYRON 1788—1824. MARY CHAWORTI1....

...like despair ;" the vain, inert aspiration after the unattained, the perhaps unattainable — " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow ; " for the star which had set long ago ; for the morrow that had never dawned for him ? VOL. in, 13...

...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every...

...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every...

...describes the passionate yearning for the Unseen which seems never quite extinct in the soul of man : "The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow ; The" devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." '. Augustine is a memorable example...

...out, but for him the blackness and blindness of night had never so utterly fallen. CHAPTER II. " THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, OF THE NIGHT FOR THE MORROW." HOURS passed by uncounted, unheeded by him ; the chimes of the campanile had chimed twelve, and one,...

...leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the deathbed of fame.' 8. ' The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.' 9. ' He did not feel the driver's whip...

...Shakspeare ; the most they can in reality lay claim to is a blind traditional admiration for him— The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow ; The devotion to something afar— and so far that they cannot get near enough, for the present, to...

...Vibrates in the memory ; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. To . The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 1821. Most wretched...