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... expression of our con- temporary life . Since Hearn gave his very sig- nificant lecture we have discovered for ourselves an American kind of short poem , witty rather than poetic , and few verse - forms are now prac- tised more widely ...
... expression of our con- temporary life . Since Hearn gave his very sig- nificant lecture we have discovered for ourselves an American kind of short poem , witty rather than poetic , and few verse - forms are now prac- tised more widely ...
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... expression . We may say that the Latin writers still speak of love in very much the same way that it was considered before Christianity . But when I speak of Christianity I am only referring to an historical date . Before Christianity ...
... expression . We may say that the Latin writers still speak of love in very much the same way that it was considered before Christianity . But when I speak of Christianity I am only referring to an historical date . Before Christianity ...
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... love poetry , like Japanese love poetry , may be divided into many branches and classified according to the range of subject from the very simplest utterance of feeling up to that highest class expressing cos- mic LOVE IN ENGLISH POETRY 47.
... love poetry , like Japanese love poetry , may be divided into many branches and classified according to the range of subject from the very simplest utterance of feeling up to that highest class expressing cos- mic LOVE IN ENGLISH POETRY 47.
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Lafcadio Hearn John Erskine. of feeling up to that highest class expressing cos- mic emotion . Very rich the subject is ... expression in all literature . Out of love poetry belonging to the highest class , much can be drawn that would ...
Lafcadio Hearn John Erskine. of feeling up to that highest class expressing cos- mic emotion . Very rich the subject is ... expression in all literature . Out of love poetry belonging to the highest class , much can be drawn that would ...
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... expressions in these lines need explanation . For instance , the allusion to Hermes and his rod . I think you know that Hermes is the Greek name of the same god whom the Romans called Mercury , -commonly repre- sented as a beautiful ...
... expressions in these lines need explanation . For instance , the allusion to Hermes and his rod . I think you know that Hermes is the Greek name of the same god whom the Romans called Mercury , -commonly repre- sented as a beautiful ...
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Page 46 - BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 19 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 225 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 62 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 102 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 181 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's...
Page 176 - Busy, curious, thirsty fly ! Drink with me, and drink as I ! Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up : Make the most of life you may ; Life is short and wears away ! Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ! Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ! Threescore summers when they're gone, Will appear as short as one...
Page 268 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 202 - Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick -glancing to the sun.
Page 52 - And teach her fair steps tread our Earth ; Till that divine Idea, take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.