Poems of Sidney LanierScribner's, 1891 - 260 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Æschylus artist BALTIMORE beauty Beethoven blue breath bright burn calm CEDARCROFT CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN child cloud cried dark dawn dead dear death Dey's mightily doth dream e'er earth eyes fain Fair Lady faith flame fool gates of sleep gaze GEORGIA grace grass grave green Gris Grillon Hamish hand hast hath heart heartsease heaven heavenly heerd height hell hills of Habersham hound JACQUERIE King King Arthur kiss land Lanier light lips look Lord Raoul love's lovers Lucretius MACON marshes of Glynn morn muscadine ne'er never night Nirvâna o'er pain passion poem poet PRATTVILLE quoth Love rose round sail shame shine Sidney Lanier sigh sing smile song soul stars SUNRISE SONG sweet tears thee thine thou Time's tree twixt unto valleys of Hall villeins violet wave West wife wild wind wing woods wrought
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Página 24 - High o'er the hills of Habersham, Veiling the valleys of Hall, The hickory told me manifold Fair tales of shade, the poplar tall Wrought me her shadowy self to hold, The chestnut, the oak, the walnut, the pine, Overleaning, with flickering meaning and sign, Said, "Pass not, so cold, these manifold Deep shades of the hills of Habersham, These glades in the valleys of Hall.
Página 17 - Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, * Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
Página 141 - INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last : 'Twas on a tree they slew Him —...
Página 258 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow!
Página 17 - In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God: Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn.
Página 14 - Beautiful glooms, soft dusks in the noonday fire,— Wildwood privacies, closets of lone desire, Chamber from chamber parted with wavering arras of leaves,— Cells for the passionate pleasure of prayer to the soul that grieves...
Página 5 - Teach me the terms of silence, — preach me The passion of patience, — sift me, — impeach me, — And there, oh there As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air, Pray me a myriad prayer.
Página 60 - O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart— 'tis tired of head: We're all for love," the violins said. "Of what avail the rigorous tale Of bill for coin and box for bale? Grant thee, O Trade! thine uttermost hope: Level red gold with blue sky-slope, And base it deep as devils grope: When all's done, what hast thou won Of the only sweet that's under the sun? Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh Of true love's least, least ecstasy?
Página 15 - Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore When length was fatigue, and when breadth was but bitterness sore, And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain, — Oh, now unafraid, I am fain to face The vast sweet visage of space.
Página 16 - A league and a league of marsh-grass, waisthigh, broad in the blade, Green, and all of a height, and unflecked with a light or a shade, Stretch leisurely off, in a pleasant plain, To the terminal blue of the main.