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... poetic , and few verse - forms are now prac- tised more widely among us . Hearn spoke as a prophet or as a shrewd ... poets who had no other acquaintance with Japan . In this point also his observation has proved prophetic ; the new ...
... poetic , and few verse - forms are now prac- tised more widely among us . Hearn spoke as a prophet or as a shrewd ... poets who had no other acquaintance with Japan . In this point also his observation has proved prophetic ; the new ...
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... poets and romance writers used to think . And they can do things which English writers can not do , because their language has power of more delicate expression . We may say that the Latin writers still speak of love in very much the ...
... poets and romance writers used to think . And they can do things which English writers can not do , because their language has power of more delicate expression . We may say that the Latin writers still speak of love in very much the ...
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... poets of to - day writing just as freely on the subject of love as the old Latin poets of the age of Augustus , while Northern poets observe with few exceptions great restraint when treating of this theme . where is the line to be drawn ...
... poets of to - day writing just as freely on the subject of love as the old Latin poets of the age of Augustus , while Northern poets observe with few exceptions great restraint when treating of this theme . where is the line to be drawn ...
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... poet speaks of love , he generally means passion , not friendship . I am only stating very general rules . You see how confusing the subject is , how difficult to define the matter . Let us leave the definition alone for a moment , and ...
... poet speaks of love , he generally means passion , not friendship . I am only stating very general rules . You see how confusing the subject is , how difficult to define the matter . Let us leave the definition alone for a moment , and ...
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... poets and writers of romance are naturally justified in describing . Can they go beyond it with safety , with propriety ? That depends very much upon whether they go up or down . By going up I mean keeping within the region of moral ...
... poets and writers of romance are naturally justified in describing . Can they go beyond it with safety , with propriety ? That depends very much upon whether they go up or down . By going up I mean keeping within the region of moral ...
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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.