 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
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - Biografia - 1887 - 254 pages
...in Shakespeare's Poems, facing " A Lover's Complaint" 1 Bright star, would I were steadfast as them 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,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - 1887 - 256 pages
...other interesting traces of his thought and feeling :— "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1887 - 246 pages
...their priestlike task Of pure 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, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - English poetry - 1887 - 362 pages
...the sea, which is so infinitely beyond any prose saying : such lines, for instance, as Keats' — " The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores." Or the same poet's — " It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - Sea poetry - 1887 - 366 pages
...froth before me, while there yet remain'd Hale strength, nor from my bones all marrow drain'! KEATS. THE moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. KEATS. THE surgy murmurs of the lonely s«a. KEATS. THE rocks were silent, the wide sea did weave An... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - Biografia - 1887 - 290 pages
...their priestlike task Of pure 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, slill unchangeable, I'illowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1887 - 252 pages
...their priestlike task Of cold 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 stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...seal the hushed casket of my soul. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. f RIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as tl1ou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...— 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... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...seal the hushed casket of my soul. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. w RIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft, the night,...— 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... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1888 - 272 pages
...SONNET. FRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nigh!, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's...— 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... | |
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