 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 páginas
...over the corn, Over the tender, bow'd locks of the corn. THE EARTHLY PARADISE [1868-1870.] PROLOGUE Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot...years. Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears, Or hupe again for aught that I can say, The idle singer of an empty day. Grudge every minute as it passes... | |
 | Alfred Noyes - 1926 - 176 páginas
...the farewell salute to Chaucer, with their perpetually recurrent burden, in a hundred varied forms : Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot...thing, Or bring again the pleasure of past years, Not for my words shall ye forget your tears Or hope again for aught that I can say, The idle singer... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1926 - 172 páginas
...largely consolatory. The very fact that in the prefatory verses to The Earthly Paradise he pleads: Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot...your fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing . . . is evidence of this trouble, and it would seem that as time passed he found that the aesthetic... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 378 páginas
...alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover. The Idle Singer FROM "THE EARTHLY PARADISE" OF Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing. I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Nor make quick-coming death a little thing, Nor bring again the pleasure of past years; Nor for my... | |
 | 1946 - 396 páginas
...one whose feet would spurn the traditional Victorian paths of dogmatism. He wrote in his "Apology": Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot...thing, Or bring again the pleasure of past years. He called himself "The Idle Singer of an Empty Day"; I have no message, he warned; but if one would... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1903 - 610 páginas
...the influence of Chaucer ; but who can read from ' ' The Earthy Paradise," without thinking of Keats "Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick coming death a little thing, Or bring again the pleasures of past years, Nor for my words shall... | |
 | 1897 - 284 páginas
...furniture. His early poems are fran1dy pagan in their disregard of modern self-questioning. Of Heaven and Hell I have no power to sing ; I cannot ease the burden...fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing. Then, indeed, he could sing of himself — Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 páginas
...the past in opposition to the spirit of the present. He says, in his Earthly Paradise : Of Heaven and Hell I have no power to sing ; I cannot ease the burden...quick-coming death a little thing ; Or bring again the pleasures of past years ; Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears, Or hope again for aught that... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 páginas
...Prioresses Tale and a part of Troilus). William Morris uses it in some parts of his Earthly Paradise; cp.: Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or hope again for aught that I can say, The idle singer of an empty day. § 238. Chaucer's Eight-line... | |
 | James Longenbach - 1991 - 358 páginas
...say anything about it. For Morris, the function of the post-Romantic poet was severely diminished: "Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, / I cannot...fears, / Or make quick-coming death a little thing." A recognition of the limited and possibly solipsistic nature of human knowledge kept poets like Morris... | |
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Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick-coming death a little thing... 
