 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
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 354 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 sayst, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."... | |
 | Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...sterility. Its immortality is a kind of inhumanity. In the final stanza he attempts to reach a conclusion: 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 know.'... | |
 | Martin Gayford, Karen Wright - Art - 2000 - 654 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 sayst, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...streets forevermore 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...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 ve need to... | |
 | William I. Tawes - Crafts & Hobbies - 2001 - 228 pages
...two young lovers on Keats' Grecian urn, could never fade away, and that he would be forever young. Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As...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."... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 412 pages
...ground of the Urn. The Urn contains the scene out of which it arose. We turn now to the closing stanza: 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 know.... | |
 | Religion - 2003 - 166 pages
...In these verses of Keats on a Grecian urn we find Greece: O Attic shape! fair attitude! with breed Of marble men and maidens overwrought. With forest...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 'Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Phillip Stambovsky - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 240 pages
...streets for evermore 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 say'st, Beauty is truth,... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - Social Science - 2004 - 336 pages
...the final stanza, all the pins are removed and Keats outWordsworths Wordsworth. Here are the lines: 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 say'st, "Beauty is truth,... | |
 | 2005 - 334 pages
...return. V O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forests branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form,...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.... | |
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