Lyric Poetry, Volume 2J. M. Dent and sons Limited; New York, 1913 - 374 pages |
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... true rhyme , there is insistent alliteration . Its methods may be understood at a glance by taking up again the passage already quoted from a typical page of Beowulf— " Wado weallende , + wedera cealdost , nithende niht + and northan ...
... true rhyme , there is insistent alliteration . Its methods may be understood at a glance by taking up again the passage already quoted from a typical page of Beowulf— " Wado weallende , + wedera cealdost , nithende niht + and northan ...
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... true tradition , we still attach the main stem of literature to the North . Aldhelm and his letter to Aldferth remind us that the shifting of the centre to Wessex has already begun . We must turn the pages of the Exeter Book and conjure ...
... true tradition , we still attach the main stem of literature to the North . Aldhelm and his letter to Aldferth remind us that the shifting of the centre to Wessex has already begun . We must turn the pages of the Exeter Book and conjure ...
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... true follower , the poet who has gradually been individualised for us under the name of Cynewulf ; who had a note of ecstasy not unlike Caedmon's , with more radiance , and distinct melody in his verse . Two or three passages from his ...
... true follower , the poet who has gradually been individualised for us under the name of Cynewulf ; who had a note of ecstasy not unlike Caedmon's , with more radiance , and distinct melody in his verse . Two or three passages from his ...
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... true foster - father of song , who did the most that any man , prince or poet , can do , first for its safeguarding , and then for its liberation in art when the moment comes . That is , loving poetry , and believing in its intrinsic ...
... true foster - father of song , who did the most that any man , prince or poet , can do , first for its safeguarding , and then for its liberation in art when the moment comes . That is , loving poetry , and believing in its intrinsic ...
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... true measure . After him we come upon a group of songs that sound like the awakening of spring and keep their impulsive notes while achieving for the first time an artistic use of melody . They occur in another of the early Anthologies ...
... true measure . After him we come upon a group of songs that sound like the awakening of spring and keep their impulsive notes while achieving for the first time an artistic use of melody . They occur in another of the early Anthologies ...
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Page 278 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 277 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Page 286 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 223 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee. How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 345 - THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...
Page 287 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 185 - DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 343 - And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 152 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 188 - Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.