The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... thou movest Its dim shapes are clad with brightness . " Matter is ruled by mind , and the best power of mind is sentiment . The Kingdom of God , said the founder of the Christian religion , is within you . It is the mission of poetry ...
... thou movest Its dim shapes are clad with brightness . " Matter is ruled by mind , and the best power of mind is sentiment . The Kingdom of God , said the founder of the Christian religion , is within you . It is the mission of poetry ...
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... thou go ? Amidst the misty vapors , Fain would I know What doth cause the tapers ; Why the clouds benight us , And affright us While we travel here below . Fain would I know what makes the roaring thunder , And what these lightnings be ...
... thou go ? Amidst the misty vapors , Fain would I know What doth cause the tapers ; Why the clouds benight us , And affright us While we travel here below . Fain would I know what makes the roaring thunder , And what these lightnings be ...
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... thou go ? In conceit like Phaeton , I'll mount Phoebus ' chair , Having ne'er a hat on , All my hair a - burning In my journeying , Hurrying through the air . Fain would I hear his fiery horses neighing , And see how they on foamy bits ...
... thou go ? In conceit like Phaeton , I'll mount Phoebus ' chair , Having ne'er a hat on , All my hair a - burning In my journeying , Hurrying through the air . Fain would I hear his fiery horses neighing , And see how they on foamy bits ...
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... thou go ? Fain would I conclude this , At least make essay , What similitude is ; Why fowls of a feather Flock and fly together , And lambs know beasts of prey : How Nature's alchymists , these small laborious creatures , Acknowledge ...
... thou go ? Fain would I conclude this , At least make essay , What similitude is ; Why fowls of a feather Flock and fly together , And lambs know beasts of prey : How Nature's alchymists , these small laborious creatures , Acknowledge ...
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... thou go ! Fain also would I prove this , By considering What that , which you call love , is : Whether it be a folly Or a melancholy , Or some heroic thing ! Fain I'd have it proved , by one whom love hath wounded , And fully upon one ...
... thou go ! Fain also would I prove this , By considering What that , which you call love , is : Whether it be a folly Or a melancholy , Or some heroic thing ! Fain I'd have it proved , by one whom love hath wounded , And fully upon one ...
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Page 119 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
Page 317 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 396 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly,
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Page 129 - My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank ; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank. I moved, and could not feel my limbs: I was so light — almost I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.
Page 121 - The Sun now rose upon the right : Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariners...
Page 389 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Page 122 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Page 221 - There, on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee...