 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 páginas
...JOHN DONNE. LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | 1894 - 706 páginas
...interesting traces of his thought and feeling :— "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 páginas
...other interesting traces of his thought and feeling : " Bright star, would I were stedfast as them art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 páginas
...speaks in his most mature tone, it is the accent of Sophocles, not the accent of Spenser, we hear ' The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. ' ' Like anxious men Who on wide plains gather in panting troops, When earthquakes jar their battlements... | |
 | 1895 - 460 páginas
...initiated from birth into the secrets of nature. " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | 1895 - 656 páginas
...hardly a matter of clear consciousness, and the threads are wellnigh inextricable, as in Keats : — " The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." One of the simplest and at the same time most magnificent examples of what I mean is the line from... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 348 páginas
...nothingness do sink.- / XVI. " Bright Star !" BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art,— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 páginas
...FACING 'A LOVER'S COMPLAINT ' BRIGHT star, .would I were steadfast as thou art: Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors; No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 350 páginas
...nothingness do sink. XVI. • " Bright Star !" BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 338 páginas
...to nothingness do sink. XVL " Bright Star !" BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art»«» Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
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BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — < Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's... 
