Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 307edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
| Richard N. Ringler, Dick Ringler, Jónas Hallgrímsson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 520 pages
..."table'V'fable") by uppercase letters. Thus the rhyme scheme of the following four lines by Wordsworth, Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves...followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land, would be represented AbCb. 3. When the alliteration patterns of medieval Icelandic strophic poetry... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 258 pages
...familiar faces—."" "Like clouds that rake the mountain summit, Or waves that own no curbing hands, How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!' 7 Sic transit '" I am very much engaged; besides my French, and other necessary claims on my time and... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...once tender and stern, for the death of fellowpoets, 'Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg': Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land! - or the firm artistry of the 'Ode to Lycoris' and the 'Vernal Ode' (both of 1817)." The latter poem... | |
| Geoffrey Henderson - Jewish Christians - 2006 - 201 pages
...were moments when the remembrance of his apostasy brought floods of tears." 84 John 3:14-15 (KJV) 76 How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land! William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg By the autumn of 1... | |
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