Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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Page 33
... past a spiritual life and beauty . It is in vain we echo the words of other days , and call it poetry ; it is in vain we collect the scattered dust of the past , and attempt to give it form and life by that same principle which once ...
... past a spiritual life and beauty . It is in vain we echo the words of other days , and call it poetry ; it is in vain we collect the scattered dust of the past , and attempt to give it form and life by that same principle which once ...
Page 70
... past ; the shadows have long since fallen over the field of his defeat ; as we try to retrace its past history , all is indefinite , and the imagination fills its unknown extent with sights more terrific than any actual conflict could ...
... past ; the shadows have long since fallen over the field of his defeat ; as we try to retrace its past history , all is indefinite , and the imagination fills its unknown extent with sights more terrific than any actual conflict could ...
Page 117
... Past days of joy should through thy memory throng , And each to thee their words of sorrow tell , While ravished sense forgets thee in thy song . The heart that on the past and future feeds , And pours in human words its thoughts divine ...
... Past days of joy should through thy memory throng , And each to thee their words of sorrow tell , While ravished sense forgets thee in thy song . The heart that on the past and future feeds , And pours in human words its thoughts divine ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom Boston breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive Nathaniel Parker natural action never night o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words