 O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou...  Selections from the British Poets - Page 1551840Full view - About this book
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...joy in the sight of these ancient perfections. Let us recall his apostrophe to a Grecian urn : — O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst. "Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...Why thou art desolate, eao e'er return. O Attic shape f Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men aod maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the...pastoral : When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other wo Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, .. Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 0 Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other wo Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pages
...attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden we«l ; Thou, silent form ! dost tease us out of thought As...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 556 pages
...for evermore Will «lent be ; and not a «oui to lell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5. О Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men...branches and the trodden weed ; Thou, silent form ! dost lease us out of thought As doth eternity : Cold Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate , can e'er return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men...generation waste, Thou shalt remain , in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 pages
...and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5. О Attic shape! Fair attitude! wiih brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With...Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou ehalt remain, tn midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 0 Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...a soul to tell Mrhy thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with breed Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest...generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Then ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all... | |
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