 | 842 páginas
...lips unbrightened, — wreathlcss brow I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope, without an object, cannot live." And such may be the case with a dreamy and abstracted reasoner, but not so with him who walks forth... | |
 | Peel Club, Glasgow - 1840 - 256 páginas
...With lip unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll, And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live." We have characterized this want of purpose as a failing, and such we feel it to be. And yet it may... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 páginas
...With lips unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you leam the spells that drowse my souU h'd at the breast ! Sons, brothers, husbands, all Who ever gazed with fondness on YOUTH AND AGE. VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee — Both... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 páginas
...lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. To about the same date belongs the following, entitled ' Youth and Age :'— Youth, a breeze mid blossoms... | |
 | 1897 - 918 páginas
...With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll; And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul, Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. The differences between this poem and a sonnet are as follows: (n) It is divided into two parts, an... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1844 - 926 páginas
...of spring. And I, the while, the sole unbusied thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. COLERIDGE. AT Oxford, Ella could obtain no other information respecting Cuthbert, except that which... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 páginas
...With lips unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll: And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul! Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. I insert this poem on account of the exquisite imaginative picture in the third and fourth lines, and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 292 páginas
...lips unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ! Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. I insert this poem on account of the exquisite imaginative picture in the third and fourth lines, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 páginas
...With lips imbrightcn'd, wrrathlrss brow, I stroll : And would you leurn the spells that drowse my sou" Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an 'object cannot live. YOUTH AND AGF.. VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeilmg, like a bee — Both... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...With lips unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll: And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul! Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. I insert this poem on account of the exquisite imaginative picture in the third and fourth lines, and... | |
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... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll... 
