Lectures on Art, and PoemsBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 380 páginas |
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ALMAHAYA Angel Artist aught beautiful behold Bird birth blessed blest breath bright bright eye character charm clouds color conscious dark daugh degree doth dream E'en early treasure earth Eddystone Lighthouse effect emotion eyes fair fame fearful feel felt flower genius gentle gift give grace ground harmony hear heart heaven human Idea imagination intellect kind kindred light living look magic Michael Angelo mighty mind moral mysterious nature Nature's ne'er never night o'er object outward Painter passed picture pleasure praise pure purple purple haze Sawney Beane seemed sense shadow smile SONNET soul sound spake speak spirit stood stranger band sublime substituting laws suppose sweet Sylph sympathy thee thine things thou thought Thrush tion Titian toil Troubadour true truth WASHINGTON ALLSTON ween whole wondrous word wrought youth ZELICAN
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Página 115 - And mine shall Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...
Página 98 - As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both!
Página 170 - It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over Nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, when every feature is set the other way ; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance ; the legs shake with anger, when all above is calm.* 18.
Página 205 - Or heard from branch of flowering thorn The song of friendly cuckoo warn The tardy-moving swain ; Hast bid the purple swallow hail, And seen him now through ether sail, Now sweeping downward o'er the vale, And skimming now the plain ; " Then, catching with a sudden glance The bright and silver-clear expanse Of some broad river's stream, Beheld the boats adown it glide, And motion wind again the tide, Where...
Página 256 - Like a sailor she seem'd on a desolate shore, With nor house, nor a tree, nor a sound but the roar Of breakers high dashing around. From object to object still, still would she veer, Though nothing, alas, could she find...
Página 213 - If e'er with fearful ear at eve Hast heard the wailing tempests grieve Through chink of shattered wall, The while it conjured o'er thy brain Of wandering ghosts a mournful train, That low in fitful sobs complain Of Death's untimely call ; " Or feeling, as the storm increased, The love of terror nerve thy breast, Didst venture to the coast, To see the mighty war-ship leap From wave to wave upon the deep, Like chamois goat from steep to steep, Till low...
Página 292 - While the manners, while the arts, That mould a nation's soul, Still cling around our hearts, — Between let Ocean roll, Our joint communion breaking with the Sun : Yet still from either beach The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are One.
Página 173 - Fame does not depend on the will of any man, but Reputation may be given or taken away. Fame is the sympathy of kindred intellects, and sympathy is not a subject of willing, while Reputation, having its source in the popular voice, is a sentence which may either be uttered or suppressed at pleasure. Reputation, being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the envious and the ignorant; but Fame, whose very birth...
Página 330 - O, what charm or magic numbers Can give me back the gentle slumbers Those weary, happy days did leave ? When by my bed I saw my mother kneel, And with her blessing took her nightly kiss ; Whatever time destroys, he cannot this ; — E'en now that nameless kiss I feel.
Página 206 - Twas I to these the magick gave, That made thy heart, a willing slave, To gentle Nature bend; And taught thee how with tree and flower, And whispering gale, and dropping shower, In converse sweet to pass the hour, As with an early friend...