 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
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...a soul, to tell Whv thou art desolate, can e'er return. 0 Attic shape ! Pair attitude ! with bredo Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest...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 yo need to know.... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1891 - 408 pages
...little town, thy streets forevermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, will e'er return. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with...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 - 1891 - 236 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1891 - 408 pages
...not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with bredc Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest...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 yc need to... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - English literature - 1892 - 668 pages
...peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets forevermore Will silent be ; and not a soul, to tell Why thou...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 Mason Hoppin - Art - 1892 - 326 pages
...have been lost or melted, but the little fretted Greek urn we keep among our immortal treasures. " 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1892 - 960 pages
...in the sight of these ancient perfections. Let us recall his apostrophe to a Grecian urn : " O Attio shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and...other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thon aayst, ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty ' — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 954 pages
...sight of these ancient perfections. Let us recall his apostrophe to a Grecian urn : " 0 Attic shape 1 Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens...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, ' Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drestf What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built...midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say's* : ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty,— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...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...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... | |
| |
