Poems of Sidney LanierCharles Scribner's Sons, 1884 - 252 páginas |
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Æschylus artist BALTIMORE beauty Beethoven blue breath bright burn Cædmon calm CEDARCROFT CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN clarionet cloud corn cried dark dawn dead dear death Dey's mightily doth dream e'er earth eyes fain Fair Lady faith flame fool gaze GEORGIA grace grass grave green Gris Grillon Habersham Hamish hand hast hath head heart heartsease heaven heavenly heerd hell hills of Habersham hound JACQUERIE King King Arthur kiss land Lanier light lips look Lord Raoul Love's Lucretius MACON marsh marshes of Glynn morn muscadine ne'er never night Nirvâna o'er pain passion poems poet PRATTVILLE quoth Love rose round sail shame shine Sidney Lanier sigh sing smile song soul stars sweet tears thee thine thou Time's tree twixt valleys of Hall villeins violet wave West wife wild WILLIAM HAYES WARD wind wing woods wrought
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Página 139 - INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last : 'Twas on a tree they slew Him —...
Página 248 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow!
Página 60 - O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart— 'tis tired of head: We're all for love," the violins said. "Of what avail the rigorous tale Of bill for coin and box for bale? Grant thee, O Trade! thine uttermost hope: Level red gold with blue sky-slope, And base it deep as devils grope: When all's done, what hast thou won Of the only sweet that's under the sun? Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh Of true love's least, least ecstasy?
Página 32 - Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, — What if 'or yet, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's, — Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, thou Crystal Christ...
Página xxxvi - Let any sculptor hew us out the most ravishing combination of tender curves and spheric softness that ever stood for woman ; yet if the lip have a certain fulness that hints of the flesh, if the brow be insincere, if in the minutest particular the physical beauty suggest a moral ugliness, that sculptor — unless he be portraying a moral ugliness for a moral purpose — may as well give over his marble for paving-stones.
Página 24 - OUT of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, • Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock and together again, Accept my bed, or narrow or wide.
Página 45 - DEATH, thou'rt a cordial old and rare: Look how compounded, with what care, Time got his wrinkles reaping thee Sweet herbs from all antiquity. David to thy distillage went, Keats, and Gotama excellent, Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright, And Shakespeare for a king-delight. Then, Time, let not a drop be spilt: Hand me the cup whene'er thou wilt; Tis thy rich stirrup-cup to me; I'll drink it down right smilingly.
Página 34 - ... and were still, breath-bound with waiting and wonder and fear. Then Alan the huntsman sprang over the hillock, the hounds shot by, The does and the ten-tined buck made a marvellous bound, The hounds swept after with never a sound, But Alan loud winded his horn in sign that the quarry was nigh. For at dawn of that day proud Maclean of Lochbuy to the hunt had waxed wild, And he cursed at old Alan till Alan fared off with the hounds For to drive him the deer to the lower glen-grounds: "I will kill...
Página 124 - I marvel how mine eye, ranging the Night, From its big circling ever absently Returns, thou large low Star, to fix on thee. Maria ! Star ? No star : a Light, a Light ! Wouldst leap ashore, Heart ? Yonder burns — a Light. Pedro Gutierrez, wake ! come up to me. I prithee stand and gaze about the sea : What seest ? Admiral, like as land — a Light ! Well ! Sanchez of Segovia, come and try : What seest ? Admiral, naught but sea and sky ! Well!
Página xxxvii - My democrat, the democrat whom I contemplate with pleasure ; the democrat who is to write or to read the poetry of the future, may have a mere thread for his biceps, yet he shall be strong enough to handle hell, he shall play ball with the earth, and albeit his stature may be no more than a boy's, he shall still be taller than the great redwoods of California ; his height shall be the height of great resolution, and love and faith and beauty and knowledge and subtle meditation ; his head shall be...