Shepherd's Crowns: A Volume of EssaysD. Appleton, 1923 - 142 páginas |
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ancient assonances Barnes beautiful birds Blackcap bless body Border Ballads called Charles VII Chaucer child Chinon Christ Church Compiègne cooking pot cried dark dead death divine Domremy door Dreamer dreams Dunois earth earthly emblem enemy English eyes Fair flowers figure follow force garden Garden Warbler give green leaves grow rarely hands hear heart Holy human Indweller inner plane Joan Joan of Arc Joan's King leaves they grow light litel live Lord meaning Meldon Hill mind nature never night old fakir once Orleans ourselves plane poem poet psychic realisation recognise religion Rheims Rose sacred Salisbury Plain Scriptures sense shine sleep song sorrow soul speak Spirit Spiritualists stand stone Stonehenge story symbols tale teaching tell thee thing thou thought tion to-day told touch truth unto verse walls William Blake Wiltshire words Wycliffite
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Página 56 - All scattered in the bottom of the sea, Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Página 56 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick; Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
Página 57 - With that grim ferryman* which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick, Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence ?
Página 141 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Página 57 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling waked, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, Such terrible impression made my dream.
Página 32 - Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou were left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. There is not room for Death Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou— Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
Página 58 - No more — no more — no more" — (Such language holds the solemn sea To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar! And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
Página 140 - The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there ; And led him thro
Página 19 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well." And she has made to them a bed, She's made it large and wide; And she's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said. "Tis time we were away.
Página 56 - Gloster stumbled ; and, in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard, Into the tumbling billows of the main, O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown...