The Skylark and Adonais

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Maynard, Merrill, 1890 - 46 стор.

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Сторінка 5 - Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! 100 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. 105
Сторінка 8 - fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken 5 The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she
Сторінка 2 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. 25 All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is
Сторінка 8 - lashing hail. And whiten the green plains under, 10 And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below. And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
Сторінка 20 - Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one 1 Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And, by the incantation of this verse, 66 Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Сторінка 4 - chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. TO What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains? » What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of
Сторінка 19 - 25 Vaulted with all thy congregated might Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O, hear! m. Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, 30 Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in
Сторінка 31 - and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift— 280 A Love in desolation masked ;—a Power Girt round with weakness ;—it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour
Сторінка 4 - own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? 75 With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 80 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream 1 85
Сторінка 19 - Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill 10 (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odors plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving every where ; Destroyer and preserver ; hear, O, hear ! n. Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion, 15 Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,

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