 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Joseph Addison. Born 1672. Died 1719. A HYMN.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world-s exchange. O might I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example,...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Of Pope's Windsor Forest, Johnson has remarked,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. Oh, could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentl e, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. The stream is so transparent,... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pages
...plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...my theme ! Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. But his proud head the airy mountain hides... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...my theme ! Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. But his proud head the airy mountain hides... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Both Dryden and Johnson agreed in singling out for praise in "Cooper's Hill" the following four lines: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Johnson's comment makes clear the principles... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pages
...explains John Denham's requirement, as he apostrophized the Thames, that form not obstruct thought: 'O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 pages
...throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth. In them he offered the Thames as a model: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 pages
...Hill. It is a question that recalls John Denham's "famous apostrophe"44 to the Thames in Cooper's Hill: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45 To make poetry like reality, to imitate... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 pages
...contemporaries, and in place of greater touchstones Dryden was fond of quoting Denham's lines on the Thames: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding to Waller as... | |
| |
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. 
