...raiment. It is all lost, however, and I will conclude in the words of the most egotistical of bards: " ' Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings strong and weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe into one...

...wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings strong and weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe into one word, • 220 And that one word were lightning, I would speak. But aa it is, I lire and die unheard, With...

...All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe into one word, 220 And that one word were lightning, I would speak. But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.' " "I'm glad you've done it," said Dora. "I...

...COLLECTION OF POEMS, &c. BY JOHN LYON. WITH NOTES, AND " Could I embody and -unbosom now, That -which ia most -within, me,— could I •wreak. My thoughts...weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Hear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one "Word, And that ona word were lightning— I -would spaalt."...

...beautiful " ; and it gave him, besides the lines above, a definition of his own ideal of poetry. " Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...word. And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ". 1 Moore points out the note of Shelley's Pantheism of Love in the stanzas on the Rousseau region....

...Harold's Pilgrimoge meditates the situation by comparing it to the fury of a storm breaking over the Alps: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...within me, - could I wreak My thoughts upon expression . . . (st. 97) And so forth: he longs for "one word [ot] Lightening," one word of comfort that would...

...like those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest? xcvn. Conld I embody and unbosom now That which is most within...word. And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; Bat as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. ХСУШ....

...entirely. In a famous passage, after viewing a spectacular storm over the Rhone, Byron is speechless: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. (111.97) The communal language of sentimentality...

...think; but what follows is nearly as unintelligible as some of the sublimities of Wordsworth himself. Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.1 [Goes on to give summary of The Prisoner of...

...lightning and shatter the elliptical syntax that conceals the natural signification he still hopes to find: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most...or weak — All that I would have sought, and all 1 seek, Bear, know, feel — and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I...