 Half agony, half ecstasy, the thing He feels the inmost : never felt the less Because he sings it. Does a torch less burn For burning next reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal...  THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE - Page 465by HODGES SMITH - 1857Full view - About this book
 | HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That Ac should be the colder for his place "J'.vixt two incessant fires,—bis personal life's, And that intense refraction which...for pain 1 We, staggering 'neath our burden as mere men, Being called to stand up straight as demigods, Support the intolerable strain and stress Of the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 496 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough for pain !" This is, we have little doubt, a very truthful, as well as very forcible,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough for pain ! We staggering 'neath our burden as mere men, Being called to stand... | |
 | 1857 - 494 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough for pain !" This is, we have little doubt, a very truthful, as well as very forcible,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...crystal conscience he was born into If artist-born ? O sorrowful great gift Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...crystal conscience he was born into If artist-born 1 O sorrowful great gift Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1857 - 492 pages
...his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which bums back Perpetually against him from the round Of crystal conscience he was born into If artist-born 2 0 sorrowful great gift Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...the round Of crystal conscience he was born into If artist born? O sorrowful great gift Conferr'd on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...reflectors of blue steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires, — his personal life's, And that intense refraction which...crystal conscience he was born into If artist-born ? O sorrowful great gift Conferred on poets, of a twofold life, When one life has been found enough... | |
 | American periodicals - 1861 - 606 pages
...reflectors of cold steel, That he should be the colder for his place 'Twixt two incessant fires — his personal life's And that intense refraction which...the round Of crystal conscience he was born into, If artist born? 0 sorrowful great gift Conferred on poets, of a two-fold life, When one life has been... | |
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