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... river , Till desperate Youth , to scatter shadows thronging About the land of light , Waves that wild flame with which the Orient strove To illumine lingering night . Beneath calm stars he seeks with maddened longing The source 28 THE ...
... river , Till desperate Youth , to scatter shadows thronging About the land of light , Waves that wild flame with which the Orient strove To illumine lingering night . Beneath calm stars he seeks with maddened longing The source 28 THE ...
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... river eddy past . III . JESUS ASSUMPTUS . " Quid statis aspicientes in cœlum . " How shall we sing the heart that scorns all song , And treads the weary earth In loneliness of labour , making strong Its individual worth ; That thrusts ...
... river eddy past . III . JESUS ASSUMPTUS . " Quid statis aspicientes in cœlum . " How shall we sing the heart that scorns all song , And treads the weary earth In loneliness of labour , making strong Its individual worth ; That thrusts ...
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... dusty hours of labour . Daylight fades About the evening star ; On Time's broad river brood the falling shades Where life floats , strewn afar . LANGUAGE , CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATION TO THINKING AND CHARACTER 30 THE ACADEMICAL .
... dusty hours of labour . Daylight fades About the evening star ; On Time's broad river brood the falling shades Where life floats , strewn afar . LANGUAGE , CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATION TO THINKING AND CHARACTER 30 THE ACADEMICAL .
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... river , " was the saying of Heraclitus , to which Emerson adds " A man never sees the same object twice . With his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects . " Believing in the gradual approach of man's nature towards harmony and ...
... river , " was the saying of Heraclitus , to which Emerson adds " A man never sees the same object twice . With his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects . " Believing in the gradual approach of man's nature towards harmony and ...
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... river , A moment white - then lost for ever . ' is still with us , -not here ! -but will be the infinite malice of destiny forces me to depart . with me when I am now but little inclined to contest this point . I certainly hate her with ...
... river , A moment white - then lost for ever . ' is still with us , -not here ! -but will be the infinite malice of destiny forces me to depart . with me when I am now but little inclined to contest this point . I certainly hate her with ...
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Page 72 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 98 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night...
Page 93 - O that I were where Helen lies! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says "Haste and come to me!
Page 94 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 93 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms Burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak' nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
Page 93 - I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.
Page 81 - His bridle-reins were golden chains, And, with a martial clank, At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel Smiting his stallion's flank. Before him, like a blood-red flag, The bright flamingoes...
Page 77 - And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed; For man never slept In a different bed And, to sleep, you must slumber In just such a bed.
Page 73 - And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door ; The Valley of Unrest 7 And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor ; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 94 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought. And curst the hand that fired the shot. When in my arms burd ' Helen dropt. And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak...