... unwithered cheek, Thy temples fringed with locks of gleaming white, And head that droops because the soul is meek, Thee with the welcome Snowdrop I compare ; That child of winter, prompting thoughts that climb From desolation toward the genial prime... The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters - Page 175by John Ruskin - 1903Full view - About this book
| 1850 - 698 pages
...desolation toward the genial prime ; — Or with the moon conquering earth's misty air, And rilling more and more with crystal light As pensive evening deepens into night. We must limit ourselves to one more sonnet. Passing by many of wellknown excellence, because they are... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...climb From desolation tow'rds the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. Q 6 XLIV. IN my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud Slowly surmounting some invidious hill, Rose out... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. ROTHA, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey To Rotha When at the sacred font for thee I stood ;... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive evening deepens into night.* Such night, however, as the same poet pictures in another poem — the closing stanza of which promises... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. то ROTIIA o, . ROTHA, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey When at the sacred font for thee I... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night. ro ROTHA Q . ROTH A, my Spiritual Child ! this head was grey When at the sacred font for thee I stood... | |
| John Ruskin - 1848 - 266 pages
...commonly most concentrated in them, though the arrangement and proportion of these characters varies at different periods, youth having more of the vigorous...typical outward fairness, and age of expanded and aetherialized 1 Compare Sec. II. Chap. IV. § 21. moral expression ; the babe, again in some measure... | |
| Emily Percival - 1851 - 326 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the moon, conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light, As pensive evening deepens into night. 18 RED ROSE VILLA, AND ITS INHABITANTS. A SKETCH. BY GRACE AQUILAR, AUTHOK OF " HOME INFLUENCE." ON... | |
| 1853 - 80 pages
...climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; — Or with the moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive evening deepens into night. We must limit ourselves to one more sonnet. Passing by many of well-known excellence, because they... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 252 pages
...commonly most concentrated in them, though the arrangement and proportion of these characters vary at different periods ; youth having more of the vigorous...typical outward fairness, and age of expanded and aetherialized moral expression ; the babe, again in some measure atoning in gracefulness for its want... | |
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