 Has its stern duties. Wherefore have I none ? I will throw off this dead and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose rises large and slow From out the fluctuations of my soul, As,...  Berenice: A Novel - Page 171by Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1856 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1853 - 570 pages
...have I none ? I will throw off this dead and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...the dim and trembling sea Starts the completed moon. Here, in this determination, he writes his poem, — attains in this spirit the object which had formerly... | |
 | Alexander Smith - 1853 - 220 pages
...have I none ? I will throw off this dead and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...fluctuations of my soul, As, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon. [Another pause. I have a heart to dare, And spirit-thews to... | |
 | 1853 - 528 pages
...Resolution :— I will throw off this dead and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...fluctuations of my soul. As, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon. Thus of Unrest:— Unrest! unrest! The passion-panting sea... | |
 | Alexander Smith - 1853 - 282 pages
...sunny Learn Has its stern duties. Wherefore have I none ? As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...fluctuations of my soul, As, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon. [Another pause. I have a heart to dare, And spirit-thews to... | |
 | 1853 - 436 pages
...shrinks from for the most part, or uses them with that nice choice of place which marks the true poet. " A mighty purpose rises large and slow From out the...dim and trembling sea Starts the completed moon." Nothing can be statelier here than this word in -ation, in spite of the prosaic character of the termination... | |
 | 1853 - 708 pages
...literature : " I will throw off this clrad and useless past, As a strung runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...the fluctuations of my soul, As ghost-like, from the <lim and tumbling sea Start* the completed moon." Walter writes his poem; is acknowledged a singer,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 pages
...RESOLUTION. " I will throw off this dead and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...and slow From out the fluctuations of my soul. As, ghost-like,/rom the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon." — Ib. HOPELESSNESS. " I see... | |
 | 1853 - 1170 pages
...Iksolution :— 1 will throw off this dpad and useless past, As a strong runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose...large and slow From out the fluctuations of my soul. At, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts tbe completed moon. Thus of Unrest :— Unrest!... | |
 | 1853 - 1074 pages
...runner, straining for his life, Unclasps a mantle to the hungry winds. A mighty purpose rises targe and slow From out the fluctuations of my soul. As, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon. Thus of Unrest : — Unrest ! nnrest ! The passion-panting... | |
 | 1854 - 608 pages
...the husbandmen, then hastes away Ere the first step of dawn, doing all good In secret and the night. A mighty purpose rises large and slow From out the...fluctuations of my soul, As, ghost-like, from the dim and tumbling sea Starts the completed moon. • I read and read Until the sun lifted his cloudy lids And... | |
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