 | William Cowper - 1853 - 520 страници
...tears by bards or heroes fhed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpofe not, or dream, Defcanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date : But mifery ftill delights to trace Its femblance in another's cafe. No voice divine the ftorm allay'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 страници
...with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shod Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purposo not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone ; When, snateh'd from all effectual aid,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 528 страници
...Austin's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike, immortalize the dead. 1 therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the...rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Hayley has remarked how providentially friend after friend was raised up for Cowper as he needed them,... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1984 - 388 страници
...1925 in an edition of 1250 copies. 28. From the last verse of William Cowper's poem, The Castaway': 'No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious...rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he.' 29. JF Holms wrote in the Calendar of Modern Letters, July 1925, that 'despite its pure and brilliant... | |
 | Kenneth Hylson-Smith - 1992 - 423 страници
...state of the castaway, and concluded with a sombre reflection on his own sad story: I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the...perish'd, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm 'd in deeper gulphs than he. John Berridge (1716-93) Not many miles from Olney, in the adjoining... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 страници
...headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. (1. 1—6) 2 wk a mercy on me, This is none of I! "But if this...knows me; (1. 23-28) InvP; MoShBr; OnMSP; OxNR There gulphs than he. (1. 59—66) ELP; EnRP; FiP; HelP; MOS; NAEL-1; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; PoE; PoEL-3;... | |
 | Victor N. Paananen - 2000 - 530 страници
...took Cowper's poem The Castaway as a statement of their own case: No voice divine the storm allay 'd. No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all...But I beneath a rougher sea. And whelm'd in deeper gulphs than he. Their quality was shown in the courage with which they faced their fate, in their unending... | |
 | Douglas Bond - 1999 - 260 страници
...despairing lines are a great contrast to his hymns, and are the most anguished lines in English poetry: No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perished each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he." "That doesn't... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 страници
...sea, but the depths of despair. The poet, like the man lost overboard, drowns alone and unredeemed: No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious...But I, beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulphs than he. (lines 61-66) Cowper's cry of anguish is as powerful as any in English poetry. It is... | |
 | Edwin Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller - 2001 - 442 страници
...lines make clear the depths of Cowper's own sense of hopelessness: No voice divine the storm allay d. No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all...rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Cowper was widely read in the nineteenth century, and his insanity was commented upon by psychiatrists.... | |
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No poet wept him : but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the... 
