Otia; Poems, Essays, and ReviewsJ. Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905 - 271 страници |
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Страница 131 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances: he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Страница 84 - It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep : And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep : And, Wordsworth, both are thine...
Страница 134 - Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid; The little trembling hand That wipes thy quiet tears, These, these are things that may demand Dread memories for years.
Страница 66 - An ecstasy to music turned, Impelled by what his happy bill Disperses; drinking, showering still, Unthinking — save that he may give His voice the outlet, there to live Renewed in endless notes of glee, (So thirsty of his voice is he,) For all to hear and all to know That He is joy, awake, aglow; The tumult of the heart to hear Through pureness filtered crystal-clear, — And know the pleasure sprinkled bright By simple singing of delight, Shrill, irreflective, unrestrained, Rapt, ringing on the...
Страница 78 - Israel shall be thy name: and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD : and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Страница 30 - Maeviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs, who might have humbugged the world long enough.
Страница 119 - Nymphs is ! especially the second part. It is truly poetical, in the intense and emphatic sense of the word.
Страница 121 - odes" because Collins and Gray had written them, " pastorals " because Pope had written them, " blank verse" because Akenside and Thomson had written blank verse, and a " Palace of Pleasure " because Spenser had written a
Страница 245 - Some turn the wheel of electricity ; some suspend rings to a load-stone, and find that what they did yesterday they can do again today. Some register the changes of the wind, and die fully convinced that the wind is changeable. There are men yet more profound, who have heard that two...
Страница 126 - Tis nature, full of spirits, waked and springing ; The birds to the delicious time are singing, Darting with freaks and snatches up and down, Where the light woods go seaward from the town ; While happy faces, striking through the green Of leafy roads, at every turn are seen ; And the far ships, lifting their sails of white Like joyful hands, come up with scattery light, Come gleaming up, true to the wished-for day, And chase the whistling brine, and swirl into the bay.