Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... Means in its moaning - by the happy , prompt , Instinctive way of youth , I mean ; for kind Calm years , exacting their accompt Of pain , mature the mind : 11 . And some midsummer morning , at the lull Just about daybreak , as he looks ...
... Means in its moaning - by the happy , prompt , Instinctive way of youth , I mean ; for kind Calm years , exacting their accompt Of pain , mature the mind : 11 . And some midsummer morning , at the lull Just about daybreak , as he looks ...
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... mean but this ? " Here is the change beginning , here the lines Circumscribe beauty , set to bliss The limit time assigns . " 13 . Nothing can be as it has been before ; Better , so call it , only not the same . To draw one beauty into ...
... mean but this ? " Here is the change beginning , here the lines Circumscribe beauty , set to bliss The limit time assigns . " 13 . Nothing can be as it has been before ; Better , so call it , only not the same . To draw one beauty into ...
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... mean to end . Go on with the world , get gold in its strife , Give your spouse the slip , and betray your friend ! There are two who decline , a woman and I , And enjoy our death in the darkness here . 11 . I liked that way you had with ...
... mean to end . Go on with the world , get gold in its strife , Give your spouse the slip , and betray your friend ! There are two who decline , a woman and I , And enjoy our death in the darkness here . 11 . I liked that way you had with ...
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... means for the love of what is worked . " Tasteth , himself , no finer good i ' the world When all goes right , in this safe summer - time , And he wants little , hungers , aches not much , Than trying what to do with wit and strength ...
... means for the love of what is worked . " Tasteth , himself , no finer good i ' the world When all goes right , in this safe summer - time , And he wants little , hungers , aches not much , Than trying what to do with wit and strength ...
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... means ! ' Doth as he likes , or wherefore Lord ? So He . ' Conceiveth all things will continue thus , And we shall have to live in fear of Him So long as He lives , keeps His strength : no change , If He have done His best , make no new ...
... means ! ' Doth as he likes , or wherefore Lord ? So He . ' Conceiveth all things will continue thus , And we shall have to live in fear of Him So long as He lives , keeps His strength : no change , If He have done His best , make no new ...
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ABT VOGLER Antichrist awhile Bactrian beast believe brain breath brow CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS Cerinthus CHARING CROSS cheat Christ clay dead death Don't fear doubt earth Ephesus eyes face fact fancy fear feel fingers fire flesh fool gain ghost give gold grow hair hand hate hath head hear heard heart Heaven Judge kiss laugh life's lips little voice live look Louis-d'or man's mind mouth NATURAL THEOLOGY neath never nought o'er once pain Patmos play Pornic praise prove raps round Saint Paul sainted Setebos sigh Sludge smile soul speak spirit STAMFORD STREET stars stop suppose sure tell thee There's things Thinketh thou thought to-day touch tricks truth turn twas twixt Valens watch what's whole wonder word worth Xanthus youth
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Page 150 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 78 - Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the mawcrammed beast?
Page 79 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 73 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 85 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 101 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, "And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — "Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, " How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Page 79 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 73 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 86 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure : What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.