 O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou...  The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 710edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Calendar - Calendars - 1893 - 414 pages
...grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair ! O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 392 pages
...sympathetic joy in the sight of these ancient perfections. Let us recall his apostrophe to a Grecian urn : O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, ' See Imaginary Conversations: Southcy and Porson. ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...streets forever more Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. V. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayest, " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 408 pages
...sympathetic joy in the sight of these ancient perfections. Let us recall his apostrophe to a Grecian urn : O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, ' See Imaginary... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. • 5O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st : 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English Literature - 1894 - 342 pages
...forever more Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return. O Attic shape1 Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty "—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate,' can e'er return. 50 Attic shape! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st: 1 Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1895 - 700 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5 O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sav'st, " Beauty is truth,... | |
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