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" And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the... "
Household Friends for Every Season - Page 166
by James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 pages
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stopped Out of the circling charm ; ls Were The path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. " I wish that he were come to...
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Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism, Volume 1

Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 pages
...damozel,' as conceived of by the earthly lover, but still the purity which comes of exquisite calmness : ' And still she bowed above the vast Waste sea of worlds...on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her beaded arm.' Here is the element we do not get from Fra Angelico, though his contemporary Lippo Lippi...
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The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: Secular poetry

Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 492 pages
...Went by her like thin flames. From the fixed plaee of Heaven she taw Time like a pulse shake Jleree Through all the Worlds : Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pieree Its path ; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. And this from " The Portrait...
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The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day, Volume 2

Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 128 pages
...enthusiasm, as italicised — " And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Thro1 all the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path ; and now she spoke...
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The new poetical reader, ed. by J.C. Curtis

John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the world. Her gaze still strove From the fixed place of...
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Catholic World, Volume 19

1874 - 900 pages
...clothes the abysses of heaven seems, without destroying their immensity, to render them visible : " From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the world. . . ." Again : " The sun was rone now , the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering...
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Essays and Studies

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 404 pages
...yet worthier of note than these. What higher imagination can be found in modern verse than this ? ' ' From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds." This grandeur of scale and sweep of spirit give greatness of style to poetry, as well as sweetness...
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Essays and studies (chiefly repr. from the Fortnightly review).

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...yet worthier of note than these. What higher imagination can be found in moder n verse than this ? " From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shak? Jura Through all the worlds." This grandeur of scale and sweep of spirit give greatness of style...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stopped Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned...worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce The path ; anil now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres. " I wish that he were come to...
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Essays and Studies, Issue 72

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1876 - 408 pages
...yet worthier of note than these. What higher imagination can be found in modern verse than this ? " From the fixed place of heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds." This grandeur of scale and sweep of spirit give greatness of style to poetry, as well as sweetness...
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