 I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation; and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and...  The Retrospective Review - Page 2221822Full view - About this book
 | David Watson Rannie - English literature - 1907 - 422 pages
...great consummation : — And, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind to the External World Is fitted :—... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1907 - 446 pages
...this great consummation ; and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." - - "May your life Express the image of a better time, More wise desires and simpler manners; nurse... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 60 Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 108 pages
...strain in honour of Liberty. But not for this will he be a tame singer. On the contrary, he will arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; and he will do this in words which refuse falsely to idealize the scenes of common life, and ' which... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 500 pages
...strain in honour of Liberty. But not for this will he be a tame singer. On the contrary, he will arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; and he will do this in words which refuse falsely to idealise the scenes of common life, and ' which... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 60 the magic hand of chance ; And when I feel, fair creature o ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps... | |
 | Catherine Macdonald Maclean - Authors, English - 1927 - 156 pages
...verse. But the consummation of his rapture is not such as all men understand. The poet would . . .arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; But alas, when he looks round, he finds that his audience has taken advantage of his absorption to... | |
 | Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - Literature - 1927 - 540 pages
...hvordan det virker tilbake. «By words Which speaking of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - English poetry - 1928 - 582 pages
...great consummation: — -and, by words /Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1958 - 196 pages
...understanding of the brotherhood of man: by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. SELECTED POEMS EXTRACTS FROM THE PRELUDE Fair Seed-time (Book I. 305-489) Fair seed-time had my soul,... | |
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