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... WHAT IS POETRY ? " BY LEIGH HUNT . 3 . Imagination and Eancy . NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU STREET . 828 H9417 1859 angly 9-22-23 12335 CONTENTS . PREFACE . 1859 . SELECTIONS AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY ON WIT AND HUMOR.
... WHAT IS POETRY ? " BY LEIGH HUNT . 3 . Imagination and Eancy . NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU STREET . 828 H9417 1859 angly 9-22-23 12335 CONTENTS . PREFACE . 1859 . SELECTIONS AN ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAY ON WIT AND HUMOR.
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... ceased poet ) ; the Poetry of Contemplation , from Surrey to Campbell ; -the Poetry of Wit and Humor , from Chau- cer to Byron ; and the Poetry of Song , or Lyrical Poetry . from Chaucer again ( see in his Works his admirable PREFACE . is.
... ceased poet ) ; the Poetry of Contemplation , from Surrey to Campbell ; -the Poetry of Wit and Humor , from Chau- cer to Byron ; and the Poetry of Song , or Lyrical Poetry . from Chaucer again ( see in his Works his admirable PREFACE . is.
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... humorous sigh ! — - A domineering pedant o'er the boy , — This whimpled , whining , purblind , wayward boy , - This senior - junior , giant - dwarf , Dan Cupid , Regent of love - rhymes , lord of folded arms , The anointed sovereign of ...
... humorous sigh ! — - A domineering pedant o'er the boy , — This whimpled , whining , purblind , wayward boy , - This senior - junior , giant - dwarf , Dan Cupid , Regent of love - rhymes , lord of folded arms , The anointed sovereign of ...
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... humor , loading their eye - lids , As messenger of Morpheus , on them cast Sweet slumbering dew ; the which to sleep them bids Unto their lodgings then his guests he rids ; Where , when all drown'd in deadly sleep he finds , He to his ...
... humor , loading their eye - lids , As messenger of Morpheus , on them cast Sweet slumbering dew ; the which to sleep them bids Unto their lodgings then his guests he rids ; Where , when all drown'd in deadly sleep he finds , He to his ...
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... humor such verses with a corresponding tone in the recital . Indeed it is difficult to read them without lowering or deepening the voice , as though we were going to bed ourselves , or thinking of the rainy night that lulled us . A long ...
... humor such verses with a corresponding tone in the recital . Indeed it is difficult to read them without lowering or deepening the voice , as though we were going to bed ourselves , or thinking of the rainy night that lulled us . A long ...
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Page 219 - 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...
Page 189 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 252 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Page 252 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 177 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 233 - ST. AGNES' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Page 194 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Page 88 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 250 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 186 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus