The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets, Volumen10Houghton, Mifflin, 1895 - 349 páginas |
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The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets, Volumen10 Vida Dutton Scudder Vista completa - 1895 |
The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets, Volumen10 Vida Dutton Scudder Vista completa - 1895 |
Términos y frases comunes
æsthetic agnosticism Arthur Hugh Clough Asia Beatrice beauty breath Browning Browning's Byron calm Canto century charm Christian consciousness contemplation conviction Dante dark death deep democracy Demogorgon despair Divine Divine Comedy doubt drama dream earth emotion eternal experience eyes fact Faerie Faerie Queene faith feeling force forever gives glory Grande Chartreuse Greek heart heaven human humor ideal imagination immortality impulse instinct intellectual Keats light living Matthew Arnold mediæval ment Mephisto Middle Ages modern poets Morris movement mystery mystic nature neo-pagan never pagan pain pantheism Paracelsus passed passion past peace perfect poems poetic poetry Prometheus Unbound pure religion religious renaissance rendered revolution Rossetti seeks sense serene shadow Shelley Shelley's social song sorrow soul Spenser spirit strong struggle superb supreme Swinburne temper Tennyson theme thou thought tion to-day touch triumph truth turn verse Victorian age Victorian poets vision word Wordsworth
Pasajes populares
Página 16 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 8 - The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 256 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Página 324 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Página 340 - Would I suffer for him that I love? So wouldst thou — so wilt thou ! So shall crown thee the topmost, ineffablest, uttermost crown — And thy love fill infinitude wholly, nor leave up nor down One spot for the creature to stand in!
Página 306 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery. In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened— that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and...
Página 140 - The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself ; just, gentle, wise...
Página 124 - Life of Life, thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Página 273 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Página 263 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes...