An Epic of the Starry HeavenPartridge & Brittan, 1854 - 210 páginas |
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Angel appear beauty blend bloom bosom breast breath bright burning calm celestial Celestial Heaven chrysolite clairvoyant crimson crystal dark descending divine dome doth dwell Earth Eden gardens electric Epic eternal ether Evermore eyes face fair flame flow flowers forever fragrant glorious glory glow God's golden golden height Hark harmony Harris hath heart heaven heavenly human images immortal immortal song Infinite inmost inner Insphere inspiration interfused interior Jupiter light living love and wisdom Love's maiden melody mighty mind morning Mozart natural art nature new-born o'er ocean outrolled outward Paradise Planet Poem poet present pulses pure quickened radiant rapture realm rise robe Seraph seven-fold Shekinah shine sight silver sing skies sleep solar Solar System soul sphere spiral Spirit splendor stars sublime Sun-sphere sweet temple thee things thou thought thrill throne trance truth unfold vail vast veins vision wake
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Página ii - Such delights As float to earth, permitted visitants ! When in some hour of solemn jubilee The massy gates of Paradise are thrown Wide open, and forth come in fragments wild Sweet echoes of unearthly melodies, And odours snatched from beds of amaranth...
Página iv - Then follow the counterpoint — and the clang of the different instruments ; and, if I am not disturbed, my soul is fixed, and the thing grows greater, and broader, and clearer ; and I have it all in my head, even when the piece is a long one ; and I see it like a beautiful picture — not hearing the different parts in succession, as they must be played, but the whole at once. That is the delight ! The composing and making is like a beautiful and vivid dream ; but this hearing of it is the best...
Página iii - The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets: upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight...
Página iii - I hum to myself, as it proceeds then follows the counter-point and the clang of the different instruments, and if I am not disturbed, my soul is fixed, and the thing grows greater, and broader, and clearer; and I have it all in my head, even when the piece is a long one, and I see it like...
Página 28 - ... are seven ages the Angels know In the courts of the Spirit Heaven ; And seven joys through the spirit flow From the morn of the heart till even ; Seven curtains of light wave to and fro Where the seven great trumpets the Angels blow, And the throne of God hath a seven-fold glow, And the Angel hosts are seven. And a spiral winds from the worlds to the suns, And every star that shines In the path of degrees for ever runs, And the spiral octave climbs ; And a sevenfold heaven round every one In...
Página v - Brittan. This poem, we are told in an ingenuous, well-written, and philosophical introduction from the pen of Mr. Brittan, " was spoken by Thomas L. Harris, in the course of fourteen consecutive days, the speaker being in a trance state during its delivery , and further, that " from 125 to 250 lines were dictated at each session, of which there were twenty-two in number, and the precise time occupied in communicating the whole was twenty-six hours and sixteen minutes.
Página 182 - So long as human lips remain unfed, \ ' Men starve their Christ for lack of coarsest bread ; Where'er a single bondsman fettered stands, Men chain their Christ and bind their Saviour's hands. Where'er a single Orphan inly dies, Or grows embruted in their factories, Like old King Herod they again condemn To death the infant Lord of Bethlehem. And when they spurn the outcast from their doors, While the thick darkness sweeps along the plain, They drive out Christ into the storm and rain, Frozen, to...
Página 101 - Earth, shall interfuse ; And into thee From heaven shall be Impoured celestial dews Of amber light And liquid flame ; And these in turn shall be Cups lifted for The diamond rain Of immortality. The sands shall glow All rosy white ; And streams of silver dew From out the land Of morning light Shall flow thy heart into.
Página ii - Magnificent, his six days' work, a World ; Open, and henceforth oft; for God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men, Delighted; and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errands of supernal grace.
Página xiv - Spirits who inhabit a classic domain in an ultimate dependency of the Heaven of Spirits, which corresponds in many of its features to lower Italy.