 With the fervor of thy lute: Well may the stars be mute! Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath...  Self Culture - Seite 4811899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1918 - 550 Seiten
...his poem, we find an inkling that Poe was to some extent aware of the source of poetic sorrow: — If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. Still, this is a very shadowy conception. At best it merely indicates that Poe knew in his heart the... | |
 | 1909 - 494 Seiten
...of deeper significance. It was song, and only song, which possessed him, when he wrote the words — "If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky." And yet is it too much to fancy that we can hear that bolder note swelling about us as we meet to-day... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1895 - 372 Seiten
...: Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. FOR ANNIE. THANK Heaven ! the crisis — The danger — is past, And the lingering illness Is over... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 538 Seiten
...; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. HAPPINESS. The four elementary conditions of happiness are, life in the open air, the love of a woman,... | |
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 204 Seiten
...wish to see the aspirations of a poet read "Israfel," that "angel whose heart-strings are a lute." " If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky." In such a poem poets and kindred souls must ever delight. In the summer of 1849, Poe left Fordham for... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 Seiten
...; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. HAPPINESS. The four elementary conditions of happiness are, life in the open air, the love of a woman,... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 Seiten
...of the skies, a,nd the ecstatic possession of the gift of song." "If I could dwell, Where Israefel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky." Before considering any more of his poems in detail it will be well to glance for a moment at his essay... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 Seiten
...merely—flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody,...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. HAPPINESS. The four elementary conditions of happiness are, life in the open air, the love of a woman,... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 540 Seiten
...merely—flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody,...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. HAPPINESS. The four elementary conditions of happiness are, life in the open air, the love of a woman,... | |
 | Jennie Thornley Clarke - 1896 - 396 Seiten
...sours ; Our flowers are merely—flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he...than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. THE HAUNTED PALACE. EDGAR ALLAN POE. IN the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a... | |
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