 BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human...  The Civil service handbook of English literature - Page 179by Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...his amorous breath ! . vin. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...— No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...all his amorous breath! vin. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...— No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...sleep, seeing I fast and pray. cccxi F> RIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art,1795-1811 •*-' Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...fast and pray. cccxi JOHN KEATS "D RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art, — 1795—1821 -L' Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - English poetry - 1880 - 202 pages
...sonnet of all we have a. wonderful parting thought of it. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art. Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And...lids apart Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, A STUDY. 175 The moving waters at thfir priest-like task Of pure ablution rounJ cariffs human shores,... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - Volunteers - 520 pages
...ceases ; it is like the tides, and may, in its constant efforts to remove impurities, be likened to ' The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores.' If hospital work is done in this spirit Sunday will not be less sacred, but each day will be equally... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...his amorous breath ! v1n. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...moors. — No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hnug the passions and scenes of that rapturons time When...exile, remembered of none ; My high aims abandoned, my Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...sleep, seeing I fast and pray. cccxt "DRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou 1795—1821 •*-' art, — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 pages
...the seas it looks down upon, lapping the coasts, are like priests washing the feet of pilgrims — " The moving waters at their priest-like task of pure ablution round earth's human shores." To Wolfe, in his " Ode on Sir John Moore's Burial," the moon struggles to send her light down to earth,... | |
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