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
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...streets 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...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,... | |
| Frances Mary Owen - English poetry - 1880 - 202 pages
...Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the iroddcn weed ; Thou silent form ! dost tease us out of thought...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.... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return. 40 O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble...us out of thought As doth Eternity: Cold Pastoral! 45 When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other wo Than ours, a friend... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; aud iiot a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, cau is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know...eldest son of the poet Coleridge, Hartley (17961S49), thou say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, aud all ye need to... | |
| English poetry - 1881 - 456 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...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayest, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...streets 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 Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 0 might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court...wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if 746 POEMS OF SENTIMENT. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"— that is Ye know on earth, and all ye need... | |
| sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. T. 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 Keats - 1882 - 440 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... | |
| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 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... | |
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