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... lyric , stamping it with a quality at once individual and poignantly beauti- ful . " The Sea Limits , " " A Last Confession , " " Troy Town , " " The Burden of Nineveh , " and " The Woodspurge , " that masterpiece of exact observation ...
... lyric , stamping it with a quality at once individual and poignantly beauti- ful . " The Sea Limits , " " A Last Confession , " " Troy Town , " " The Burden of Nineveh , " and " The Woodspurge , " that masterpiece of exact observation ...
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... lyric a touch of mystery ; the warmth of passion traversing the gulfs of space and imparting , with the aid of a charm- ing archaicism of style and a daring concreteness of description , the beauty of reality to a dream of heaven ...
... lyric a touch of mystery ; the warmth of passion traversing the gulfs of space and imparting , with the aid of a charm- ing archaicism of style and a daring concreteness of description , the beauty of reality to a dream of heaven ...
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... lyrics ; they have a magical effec- tiveness in the world of sound ; the touch of the virtuoso of genius on the open and closed vowels , and the use of the refrain and repetend , set free a subtle hypnotic influence which lays the ...
... lyrics ; they have a magical effec- tiveness in the world of sound ; the touch of the virtuoso of genius on the open and closed vowels , and the use of the refrain and repetend , set free a subtle hypnotic influence which lays the ...
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... lyrics Poe made a lasting achievement and showed a magical skill in producing a single striking and unusual effect , by con- centration of interest , subordination of secondary meaning , compression of thought and feeling within a ...
... lyrics Poe made a lasting achievement and showed a magical skill in producing a single striking and unusual effect , by con- centration of interest , subordination of secondary meaning , compression of thought and feeling within a ...
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... lyric , and drama ; he gave the word " conversation " a new and wider meaning in literature . He admired Pindar's " proud com- placency and scornful strength . If I could resemble him in nothing else , I was resolved to be as ...
... lyric , and drama ; he gave the word " conversation " a new and wider meaning in literature . He admired Pindar's " proud com- placency and scornful strength . If I could resemble him in nothing else , I was resolved to be as ...
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Allen-a-Dale artist ballad Barbara Allen beauty bird Blessed Damosel Burns charm Chorus Crashaw dear death deep delight diction earth Echion English poetry exquisite eyes father feeling fire flowers fresh friends genius gift Grecian Urn Hamad Hamadryad hand happy hast heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Herrick human imagination immortal impulse INTRODUCTIONS TO NOTABLE Israfel Keats Landor later leaves lines literature lived Longfellow lyric magical master Matthew Arnold melody ment mind nature ness never noble NOTABLE POEMS o'er passion PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Petrarch phrase poet poetic qualities Rhaicos rich RICHARD LOVELACE ROBERT HERRICK Rossetti sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's singer singing song sonnets soul spirit sweet tenderness Tennyson Thallinos thee thine things thou art thought Tintern Abbey tion touch tree Ulysses voice WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wilt thou words Wordsworth wrote young
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Page 73 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Page 42 - 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 41 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see — we feel that it is there.
Page 206 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 193 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 100 - Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 207 - My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 205 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 44 - Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Or sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.