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... fact , and to seek to show how very various are the degrees of eminence in Lyrical Poetry . The lyrical note is so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse of all poets , though in a minor degree in ...
... fact , and to seek to show how very various are the degrees of eminence in Lyrical Poetry . The lyrical note is so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse of all poets , though in a minor degree in ...
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... fact be overlooked that there is a certain character of reserve in Protestantism which has operated since the Reformation against the growth of religious Lyrical Poetry . For that we must go either to pre - Reforma- tion days , or to ...
... fact be overlooked that there is a certain character of reserve in Protestantism which has operated since the Reformation against the growth of religious Lyrical Poetry . For that we must go either to pre - Reforma- tion days , or to ...
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... fact , though the feminine note has rarely , if ever , been wholly absent from poetry , it is only of late years comparatively that it has become a very audible note . I should be carried too far away from my subject if I attempted to ...
... fact , though the feminine note has rarely , if ever , been wholly absent from poetry , it is only of late years comparatively that it has become a very audible note . I should be carried too far away from my subject if I attempted to ...
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... fact set forth in lines consisting of so many feet . Here , for instance , is a specimen . It comes in his poem on The Sofa : Joint - stools were then created , on three legs , Upborne they stood : three legs upholding firm A mossy slab ...
... fact set forth in lines consisting of so many feet . Here , for instance , is a specimen . It comes in his poem on The Sofa : Joint - stools were then created , on three legs , Upborne they stood : three legs upholding firm A mossy slab ...
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... facts and feelings in a becoming and agreeable manner ; and to do this in verse demands supreme genius . As a set - off to the example of feebleness I just now cited in Wordsworth , listen how , when the mood of inspiration is on him ...
... facts and feelings in a becoming and agreeable manner ; and to do this in verse demands supreme genius . As a set - off to the example of feebleness I just now cited in Wordsworth , listen how , when the mood of inspiration is on him ...
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Page 112 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0 listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings...
Page 176 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 64 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 78 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Page 44 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 17 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 113 - Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 64 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 36 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 6 - THERE was a roaring in the wind all night ; The rain came heavily and fell in floods ; But now the sun is rising calm and bright ; The birds are singing in the distant woods...