 WHAT rumour'd heavens are these Which not a poet sings, O, Unknown Eros ? What this breeze Of sudden wings Speeding at far returns of time from interstellar space To fan my very face, And gone as fleet, Through delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1111923Full view - About this book
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 248 pages
...strong As sunbeams. But the best, alas, Has neither memory nor tongue ! TO THE UNKNOWN EROS. "\ T THAT rumour'd heavens are these • Which not a poet sings,...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 264 pages
...strong As sunbeams. But the best, alas, Has neither memory nor tongue ! TO THE UNKNOWN EROS. "\ \ THAT rumour'd heavens are these • • Which not a poet...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | English poetry - 1881 - 456 pages
...him, Christ receive him. TO THE UNKNOWN EROS. p Publ1shed, in a volume of thirtyone odes, in 1877. WHAT rumour'd heavens are these Which not a poet sings,...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English language - 1890 - 296 pages
...sigh'd'st, with joy, ' Be dumb, Or speak but of forgotten things to far-off times to come.' BOOK II. I TO THE UNKNOWN EROS. • WHAT rumour'd heavens are...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson - 1894 - 284 pages
...sigh'd'st, with joy, ' Be dumb, Or speak but of forgotten things to far-off times to come.' BOOK II. I TO THE UNKNOWN EROS. WHAT rumour'd heavens are these...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - English language - 1904 - 380 pages
...of the rhymes and not by any inner correspondence between emotion and expression : — What rumored heavens are these Which not a poet sings, O unknown...face, And gone as fleet, Through delicatest ether l feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropped nor any trace To speak of whence... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 302 pages
...his plan, Will take the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. 40 1867. Ralph Waldo Emerson. TO THE UNKNOWN EROS WHAT rumour'd heavens are these...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropp'd, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English poetry - 1919 - 242 pages
...these Which not a poet sings, O, unknown Eros ? What this breeze Of sudden wings Speeding at far return of time from interstellar space To fan my very face,...delicatest ether feathering soft their solitary beat, With ne'er a light plume dropped, nor any trace To speak of whence they came, or whither they depart,... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 874 pages
...add to them here. But it would be wrong to say nothing at this point on the supreme merit of these odes, the merit of style. Consider it in the notation...best example of his theory of verse as a sequence of inflections of the normal. As a recent critic suggests, it represents the liberation of the strict... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 874 pages
...add to them here. But it would be wrong to say nothing at this point on the supreme merit of these odes, the merit of style. Consider it in the notation...best example of his. theory of verse as a sequence of inflections of the normal. As a recent critic suggests, it represents the liberation of the strict... | |
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