 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...rose, and twitched his mantle blue; — To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. MILTON. DEPARTED. A SLUMBER did my spirit seal; I had no human fears...not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has ."lie now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...more will be. W. Words-worth A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seem'da tiling that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No...has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course With rock$, and stones, and trees ! CLXXXI LORD ULLIWS DAUGHTER... | |
 | Evelyn Abbott - Greek language - 1875 - 372 pages
...solicitude for others whether we see her on the walls of Troy, or in the palace of Menelaus at Sparta. ('She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.') Penelope is as firm in disbelieving the title of Odysseus, until he gives unmistakeable proofs of his... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1876 - 396 pages
...without hope. In the one case Wordsworth's lines are applicable to them as well as to " Lucy :" — " No motion has she now, no force : She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks and stones and trees." They held with Claudio that " The weariest and most... | |
 | 1876 - 600 pages
...read the following lines, which were not new to her : A slumber did my spirit seal, I knew no mortal fears. She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. She knows no motion now, nor force, She neither feels nor sees, Boiled round in earth's diurnal course... | |
 | Belgravia - 1876 - 562 pages
...read the following lines, which were not new to her : A slumber did my spirit seal, I knew no mortal fears. She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. She knows no motion now, nor force, She neither feels nor sees, Rolled round in earth's diurnal course... | |
 | Edmund John Armstrong - Essays, Irish - 1877 - 342 pages
...deny, being a Byronian, that that is the merum nectar of poetry. Then take such a poem as this : — " A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...She neither hears nor sees, Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees ! " You will not deny that to be true poetry, or you... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...everlastingly, she too is whirled by a blind and passionless force : — " A slumber did my' spirit seal ; 1 had no human fears ; She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. " Xo motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - Country homes - 1877 - 306 pages
...Merton looked ; and the lines were not new to her : — A slumber did my spirit seal, I knew no mortal fears. She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. She knows no motion now, nor force, She neither feels nor sees, Rolled round in earth's diurnal course... | |
 | Mabel Collins - 1877 - 286 pages
...CHAPTEE VII. SIBYL. " I heed not that my earthly lot Hath little of earth in it." Edgar Allan Poe. " She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years." Wordsworth.. " I REALLY can't make up my mind where to settle down," said Professor Venn. " Sibyl hates... | |
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A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones,... 
