...And Pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love, But wilt them accept not 'The worship the heart lifts above And...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? NOTE ON THE POEMS OF 1821. BT THE EDITOR. MY task becomes inexpressibly painful as the year draws...

...like despair ;" the vain, inert aspiration after the unattained, the perhaps unattainable — " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow ; " for the star which had set long ago ; for the morrow that had never dawned for him ? VOL. in, 13...

...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every song. Sometimes the gaze is fixed on tlie future, and sometimes...

...forward or wildly backward, but vainly striving to close on something which eludes its grasp. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow," — that is the true burden of every song. Sometimes the gaze is fixed on the future, and sometimes...

...describes the passionate yearning for the Unseen which seems never quite extinct in the soul of man : "The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." '. Augustine is a memorable example of the same phenomenon. understood. Annihilation is generally used...

...to disdain it ; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And Pity from thee more dear I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? NOTE ON THE POEMS OF 1821. BY THE EDITOE. MY task becomes inexpressibly painful as the year drawl...

...leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the deathbed of fame.' 8. ' The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.' 9. ' He did not feel the driver's whip Nor the burning heat of day, For death had illumined the land...

...Vibrates in the memory ; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. To . The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 1821. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering...

...Shakspeare ; the most they can in reality lay claim to is a blind traditional admiration for him— The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow ; The devotion to something afar— and so far that they cannot get near enough, for the present, to recognise him at all Very few grown...

...hope is too like despair For prndence to smother. And Pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship tlie heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not : Ths desire of the moth for the star, Of the night...