...are 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...

...like thin flames. 4. And still she bowed herself and stooped (Narrator) 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. 5. The sun was gone now; the curled moon (Chorus) Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the...

...divine with a strange preciousness: 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. Christina was the better poet, though her elegiac themes range narrowly over tragic love and death....

...are 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...

...bow'd herself and stoop'd Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she lean'd on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds. Her gaze still...