 O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart —...  Rousseau and Romanticism - Page 212by Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1926 - 600 pages
...generous, shy, witty, and ever so young, appears at the Pension to make much of her, seeing her is half angel and half bird, and 'all a wonder and a wild desire.' They adore one another, and she becomes radiant with light and delight from within. And then, alas!... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 622 pages
...deplores has deprived them of one of the noblest and brightest of intellectual benefactors : — ' O lyric love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...this, which closes the introductory section of The Ring and iht Book, is one of the most noticeable : O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, — And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier bine, And sang a kindred... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...The dust swept from their beauty, — glorified New Memnons singing in the great God-light. I LYEIC Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1875 - 472 pages
...breaks into the cadences of Tennyson's style; for instance, the apostrophe to his dead wife, beginning " O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire ! " But elsewhere he still leads the reaction from the art-school. His presentations are endless :... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1879 - 794 pages
...introduction to his great poem the " Ring and the Book." A ring without a posy, and that ring mine ! Oh, Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...his usual manner and breaks into the cadences of Tennyson's style ; for instance, the apostrophe " O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire ! " But elsewhere he leads the reaction from the artschool. His presentations are endless : in his... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...Would not be precious as those blooms to him.' Observe now the magical effect of high passion: ' 0 lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire." Such the self-forgetful cadences in which he addresses his dead wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861);... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...yonr fans, Discharge your fans, Ground your fans, Recover your fans, Flutter your fans.—Addison. O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire!—Browning. 1 shall die with confusion, if I am forced to advance! Oh. no, I can never advance.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...Would not be precious as those blooms to him/ Observe now the magical effect of high passion: • 0 , detire." Such the self-forgetful cadences in which lie addresses his dead wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
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