William Morris: His Life and His Services to Literature1896 - 32 стор. |
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Сторінка 11 - The heavy trouble, the bewildering care That weighs us down who live and earn our bread, These idle verses have no power to bear; So let me sing of names remembered, Because they, living not, can ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day.
Сторінка 11 - The Earthly Paradise " 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 pleasure of past years, Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears, Or hope again for aught that I can say, The idle singer of an empty day. But rather, when aweary of your mirth, From full hearts still unsatisfied ye sigh, And, feeling kindly unto all the earth, Grudge every minute as it passes by, Made the more mindful that the...
Сторінка 8 - I think occurred next in his nimble strain ; And clay that was " kneaden " of course in Eden — A rhyme most novel, I do maintain : Mists, bones, the singer himself, love-stories, And all least furlable things got " furled ; " Not with any design to conceal their " glories," But simply and solely to rhyme with
Сторінка 20 - ... beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life, if we are to live as nature meant us to; that is, unless we are content to be less than men.
Сторінка 11 - From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lull'd by the singer of an empty day.
Сторінка 14 - Nay, the garlanded gold hair Hides thee where thou art most fair; Hides the rose-tinged hills of snow — Ah, sweet love, I have thee now ! Kiss me, love!
Сторінка 15 - When no slave of gold abideth, 'twixt the breadth of sea to sea, Oft, when men and maids are merry, ere the sunlight leaves the earth, And they bless the day beloved, all too short for all their mirth, Some shall pause awhile and ponder on the bitter days of old, Ere the toil...
Сторінка 14 - In the white-flowered hawthorn brake, Love, be merry for my sake; Twine the blossoms in my hair, Kiss me where I am most fair — Kiss me, love! for who knoweth What thing cometh after death?
Сторінка 15 - FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green...
Сторінка 24 - I will say what I mean by being a Socialist, since I am told that the word no longer expresses definitely and with certainty what it did ten years ago. Well, what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with...