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... lyric prayer to the personal deity of the poet : But thou art here - thou fill'st The solitude . Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music ; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness ...
... lyric prayer to the personal deity of the poet : But thou art here - thou fill'st The solitude . Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music ; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness ...
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... lyric compul- sion has passed him by : Nay , doubt we not that under the rough rind , In the green veins of these fair growths of earth , There dwells a nature that receives delight From all the gentle processes of life , And shrinks ...
... lyric compul- sion has passed him by : Nay , doubt we not that under the rough rind , In the green veins of these fair growths of earth , There dwells a nature that receives delight From all the gentle processes of life , And shrinks ...
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... lyric poem is still a distillation and a crystallization of im- mediate and personal life . The poet's message is not one of causes or certitudes ; it is a promise of visions and values as yet unrealized in ourselves . To ignore the ...
... lyric poem is still a distillation and a crystallization of im- mediate and personal life . The poet's message is not one of causes or certitudes ; it is a promise of visions and values as yet unrealized in ourselves . To ignore the ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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