PoemsK. Paul, Trench, 1885 - 393 páginas |
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... eternal pyramids , Memphis and Thebes , and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk , Or jasper tomb , or mutilated sphynx , Dark Æthiopia in her desert hills Conceals . Among the ruined temples there , Stupendous columns ...
... eternal pyramids , Memphis and Thebes , and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk , Or jasper tomb , or mutilated sphynx , Dark Æthiopia in her desert hills Conceals . Among the ruined temples there , Stupendous columns ...
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... eternal breath . Spirit of Nature ! thou Imperishable as this glorious scene , Here is thy fitting temple . If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the shore of the immeasurable sea , And thou hast lingered there Until the sun's broad ...
... eternal breath . Spirit of Nature ! thou Imperishable as this glorious scene , Here is thy fitting temple . If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the shore of the immeasurable sea , And thou hast lingered there Until the sun's broad ...
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... eternal temple could afford . The elements of all that human thought Can frame of lovely or sublime , did join To rear the fabric of the fane , nor aught Of earth may image forth its majesty . Yet likest evening's vault that faëry hall ...
... eternal temple could afford . The elements of all that human thought Can frame of lovely or sublime , did join To rear the fabric of the fane , nor aught Of earth may image forth its majesty . Yet likest evening's vault that faëry hall ...
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... Eternal Nature's law . Above , below , around , The circling systems formed A wilderness of harmony , Each with undeviating aim In eloquent silence through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way . — Awhile the Spirit paused in ...
... Eternal Nature's law . Above , below , around , The circling systems formed A wilderness of harmony , Each with undeviating aim In eloquent silence through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way . — Awhile the Spirit paused in ...
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... eternal universe ; Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom , That leads to azure isles and beaming skies And happy regions of eternal hope . Therefore , O Spirit ! fearlessly bear on : Though 61 THE DÆMON OF THE WORLD .
... eternal universe ; Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom , That leads to azure isles and beaming skies And happy regions of eternal hope . Therefore , O Spirit ! fearlessly bear on : Though 61 THE DÆMON OF THE WORLD .
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Adonais ANTISTROPHE Apennine art thou azure beams beautiful beneath billows blue bowers breath bright brow burning calm cave cavern clouds cold Dæmon dark dead death deep delight divine dome doth dream earth eternal EUGANEAN HILLS eyes faint fair fear fire flame fled fleeting river floating flowers folded palm gaze gentle gleam golden grave green grey heart heaven hope hopes and fears hues human isles kiss lady leaves LERICI light lips living lone MAGNETIC LADY mighty mingled moon morning mortal motion mountains mute music never night o'er ocean odour pale PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poet rain Revolt of Islam rocks round shadow sigh silent sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit stars strange stream sweet swift tears thee thine things thou art thought throne tower tremble veil voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind wind-flowers wings woods
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Página 185 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 184 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Página 93 - Nothing / beside / remains. // Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands / stretch far away. JOHN GIELGUD'S PAUSES: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a...
Página 143 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 322 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Página 208 - I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Página 180 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 311 - As Albion wails for thee : the curse of Cain Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast, And scared the angel soul that was its earthly guest ! xvni.
Página 325 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 273 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.