PoemsCarey and Hart, 1844 - 116 Seiten |
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amid Art thou Aurora AURORA BOREALIS bard Beauty bird birth blessed blooms blossom breathe breeze bright calm cherubim clouds comes dark Darting dear deep Dost thou doth dull earth Endymion eyes feel flower gleam glorious goeth golden green half Half loving harmony hast hear heard heart heaven hidden hung inner light listening lonely look lyre memory meteors mind moan morning murmur mystery Nature's never night o'er ocean Outworld perdie Pleiades roam roll round sage scorn shine silent sing skies sleep slept smile soft Sonnet soul hath sound speech spirit sprite stars stood strange stream strife summer sweeping sweet tell tempests thee When thou thine things thou art thou canst thou dost thought thunder thy dreams Titania tones trees TROMBONES Truth Twas unseen unto vision voice wake wandered warm waves Whyle wild winds wing words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 67 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Seite 51 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Seite 50 - Murmuring music in our ear — So thou talkest to the earth, After daylight's weary mirth. Is not human fantasy, Wild Aurora, likest thee, Blossoming in nightly dreams Like thy shifting meteor-gleams ? But a better type thou art Of the strivings of the heart, Reaching upwards from the earth To the Soul that gave it birth. When the noiseless beck of night Summons out the inner light, That hath hid its purer ray Through the lapses of the day — Then like thee, thou northern Morn, Instincts which we...
Seite 41 - Stolen away by sin, till by heaven restored. Now with infinite pains we here and there spell out a letter, Here and there will the sense feebly shine through the dark. When we perceive the light that breaks through the visible symbol, What exultation is ours!
Seite 48 - To express thy splendours rare ! Blush upon the cheek of night, Posthumous, unearthly light, Dream of the deep sunken sun, Beautiful, sleep-walking one, Sister of the moonlight pale, Star-obscuring meteor veil, Spread by heaven's watching vestals ; Sender of the gleamy crystals Darting on their arrowy course From their glittering polar source, Upward where the air doth freeze Round the sister Pleiades...
Seite 51 - We are spirits clad in veils ; Man by man was never seen ; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Heart to heart was never known ; Mind with mind did never meet ; We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart, though seeming near, In our light we scattered lie : All is thus but starlight here.
Seite 52 - Only when the sun of love Melts the scattered stars of thought, Only when we live above What the dim-eyed world hath taught, Only when our souls are fed By the fount which gave them birth, And by inspiration led Which they never drew from earth, We, like parted drops of rain, Swelling till they meet and run, Shall be all absorbed again, Melting, flowing into one.
Seite 74 - With us he lived a common life, And wore a plain familiar name, And meekly dared the vulgar strife That to inferior spirits came — Yet bore a pulse within, the world could never tame. And skies more soft than Italy's Their wealth of light around him spread, And tones were his, and only his— So sweetly floating o'er his head — None knew at what rich feast the favoured guest was fed.
Seite 52 - Mind with mind did never meet ; We are columns, left alone, Of a temple once complete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart, though seeming near, In our light we scattered lie ; All is thus but starlight here. What is social company But a babbling summer stream ? What our wise philosophy But the glancing of a dream ? Only when the sun of love Melts the scattered stars of thought; Only when we live above What the dim-eyed world hath taught...
Seite 41 - God's hand-writing thereon. Ages ago, when man was pure, ere the flood overwhelmed him, While in the image of God every soul yet lived, Everything stood as a letter or word of a language familiar, Telling of truths which now only the angels can read. Lost to man was the key of those sacred hieroglyphics — Stolen away by sin — till with Jesus restored.