...selfpity and shame. I'm descending to the grave with all my aspirations unrealised, I'm " " ' The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, O ! ' " I interposed, knowing that the way to restore my friend was to treat his mood as intelligently...

...assumes. Take Arnold's own method of proof by fragments and consider two lines already quoted from Burns : The wan Moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, oh ! or the great passage from Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, spoken by the old man who cannot die: This olde...

...nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come : Ah, sunflower, weary of Time ! The wan Moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, oh : I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born : there is this...

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...and others, talking to them vigorously on all sorts of topics, but I heard him quote more than once, eam'd that a Voice of the Earth went wailingly past him and said : for me, oh !" On a day in June (1892), on one of his dailywalks at Farringford, he suddenly felt very...

...poet's nomenclature — we may endorse what he has said about these two lines of Burns : — The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, O ! " These lines are perfectly symbolic. Take from them the whiteness of the moon and of the wave,...

...have persistently recurred to me as an epitome of the four qualities of poetry. They are : The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And time is setting with me, O. They present a beautiful picture : they present it symmetrically — the white moon, the white wave...

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...substance of all style. There are no lines with more melancholy beauty than these by Burns — The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, O! and these lines are perfectly symbolical. Take from them the whiteness of the moon and of the wave,...