Poems, Essays, and Leaves from a Note BookDoubleday, Page, 1904 - 573 pages |
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... tell us of a bust of Savonarola in terra - cotta , just discovered at Florence . -Dec . 25. I read the third act of my drama to George , who praised it highly . We spent a perfectly quiet evening , in- tending to have our Christmas days ...
... tell us of a bust of Savonarola in terra - cotta , just discovered at Florence . -Dec . 25. I read the third act of my drama to George , who praised it highly . We spent a perfectly quiet evening , in- tending to have our Christmas days ...
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... tell her publishers that " Mr. Lewes is in an un- precedented state of delight with the poem , now that he is reading it with close care . He says he is astonished that he can't find more faults . " At Easter George Eliot and Lewes went ...
... tell her publishers that " Mr. Lewes is in an un- precedented state of delight with the poem , now that he is reading it with close care . He says he is astonished that he can't find more faults . " At Easter George Eliot and Lewes went ...
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... tell the hour As well as flippant clocks that strike in haste And set off chiming a superfluous tune- Like JUAN there , the spare man with the lute , Who makes you dizzy with his rapid tongue , Whirring athwart your mind with comment ...
... tell the hour As well as flippant clocks that strike in haste And set off chiming a superfluous tune- Like JUAN there , the spare man with the lute , Who makes you dizzy with his rapid tongue , Whirring athwart your mind with comment ...
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... tell you , when a mosque is cleansed JUAN . The demons fly so thick from sound of bells And smell of incense , you may see the air Streaked with them as with smoke . Why , they are spirits : You may well think how crowded they must be ...
... tell you , when a mosque is cleansed JUAN . The demons fly so thick from sound of bells And smell of incense , you may see the air Streaked with them as with smoke . Why , they are spirits : You may well think how crowded they must be ...
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... tell - tale sound . But then came shrieks . The chanting stopped and turned to rushing feet , And in the midst lay Master Arbués , Felled like an ox . " T was wicked butchery . Some honest men had hoped it would have scared The ...
... tell - tale sound . But then came shrieks . The chanting stopped and turned to rushing feet , And in the midst lay Master Arbués , Felled like an ox . " T was wicked butchery . Some honest men had hoped it would have scared The ...
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Page 362 - O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search, To vaster issues.
Page 73 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 13 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 97 - Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment?
Page 106 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 45 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 72 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Page 102 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Page 45 - Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in His chariot paved with love : And what His storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Page 42 - The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.