O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou... The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 710edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Keats - 1874 - 320 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. v. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayest, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| American poetry - 1875 - 210 pages
...peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets forevermore Will silent be, and not a soul to tell Why thou art...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...streets forevermore Will silent be, and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return. 0 Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. JOHN... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. sO Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.... | |
| English poetry - 1878 - 300 pages
...peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets forevermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art...thought As doth eternity : cold pastoral ! When old age shalt this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours,, a friend to man,"... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. sO Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with breed Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st : ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair ! . . . 0 Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...streets forovermore Will silent be, and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return. -a О t thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
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