Poems, Band 5Worthington Company, 1889 |
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Poems: From the Last London Ed. , Corrected by the Author, Band 1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 114 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 15 - In my mind, the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth.
Seite 120 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Seite 201 - On all the petall'd flowers that sit beneath In hiding-places from the rain and snow, To loosen the hard soil, and leave their cold Sad idlesse, and betake them up to him. They straightway hear his voice— A thought did come, And press from out my soul the heathen dream. Mine eyes were purged. Straightway did I bind Round me the garment of my strength, and heard Nature's death-shrieking—the hereafter cry, When he o...
Seite 112 - And therefore that example of oculists and title lawyers doth come nearer my conceit than the other two ; for sciences distinguished have a dependence upon universal knowledge to be augmented and rectified by the superior light thereof, as well as the parts and members of a science have upon the Maxims of the same science, and the mutual light and consent which one part receiveth of another.
Seite 107 - God, and the edification of my fellow creatures ; but the wit and genius of those old heathens beguiled me, and as I despaired of raising myself up to their standard, upon fair ground, I thought the only chance I had of looking over their heads was to get upon their shoulders.
Seite 127 - neath thy gentleness of praise, My Father ! rose my early lays ! And when the lyre was scarce awake, I lov'd its strings for thy lov'd sake ; Woo'd the kind Muses — but the while Thought only how to win thy smile...
Seite 6 - For magic that is more its own ; But still my Father's looks remain The best Maecenas of my strain ; My gentlest joy, upon his brow To read the smile, that...
Seite 200 - EARTH. How beautiful is earth! my starry thoughts Look down on it from their unearthly sphere, And sing symphonious — Beautiful is earth! The lights and shadows of her myriad hills; The branching greenness of her myriad woods : Her sky-affecting rocks ; her zoning sea ; Her rushing, gleaming cataracts; her streams That race below, the winged clouds on high; Her pleasantness of vale and meadow! — Hush...
Seite 202 - Sod idlesse, and betake them up to him. They straightway hear his voice — A thought did come, And press from out my soul the heathen dream. Mine eyes were purged. Straightway did I bind SO Round me the garment of my strength, and heard Nature's death-shrieking — the hereafter cry, When he o...