Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where... Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 711854Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1848 - 578 pages
...is unrivalled for its still and awful portraiture : — " Deep in the shady sadness Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair." The air around was still and " Wliere tfie dead leaf fell, there did it rest." " A stream went voiceless... | |
| 1849 - 548 pages
...equalled by many others even in his most imperfect productions. In his picture of fallen royalty : " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, qniet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...voice of Silence sounding from her throne Of darkness mightier than all, — but all alone ! " KEATS. " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the «liprwnod-elan ! Though their dnys have hurried bv T*et us two n Imrdon trv. FROM " HYPERION. " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still ns the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No... | |
| David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
..." Hyperion " opens. In the same fragment we find several other passages equally grand and solemn. " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...Instead of love, it has yearnings. Its voice is the melodious cry of unrequited, insatiate longing. " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn Л in I eve's one star," be buries himself in the cavern of memory. His glory is the glory of the past... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 pages
...by Jupiter, and the later gods taking the places of the early powers of heaven and earth, Mr Keate's genius rose to a height which we do not think has...Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from tho fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as tho silence round... | |
| 1853 - 614 pages
...predicate itself, is finely displayed in the opening of " Hyperion." " Deep in the shady sadness nfa rale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn Far from the fiery noon and eve' s one ftar Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone." Here it will be observed, not only that... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...the most magnificent pictures to be found in the whole range of poetry, from the Hyperion of KEATS. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...of the predicate, as well as the predicate itself, is finely displayed in the opening of "Hyperion:" Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone. Here it will be observed, not only that the predicate "sat" precedes the subject " Saturn," and that... | |
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