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" But strength alone, though of the Muses born, Is like a fallen angel : trees uptorn, Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a... "
Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now ... - Page 55
by Mary Augusta Scott - 1895 - 381 pages
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 552 pages
...and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than £'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head...
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting thc groat end Of poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1841 - 254 pages
...and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats: In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats. In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head...
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Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats, Volume 1

Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...and shrouds and sepulchres Delight it — for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life, forgetting the great end Of Poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of men." And yet Keats did not escape the charge of sacrificing beauty to supposed intensity, and of merging...
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Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

John Keats - 1848 - 414 pages
...and shrouds and sepulchres Delight it — for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life, forgetting the great end Of Poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of men." And yet Keats did not escape the charge of sacrificing beauty to supposed intensity, and of merging...
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Dreams and Realities: In Verse and Prose

John Critchley Prince - 1850 - 192 pages
...AND PEOSE. BY JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE, ADTHOB OF "HOUB8 WITH THB MUSE3." ' I've written, not forgetting the great end Of Poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man." KEATS. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HG COLLINS, 22, PATEBN08TEB BOW. MDCCOL. 162390 , !iJN3. PREFACE. IN explanation...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend...To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. Yet I rejoice : a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the hitter weeds Lifts its sweet heap...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...impart : The harvest of a quiet eye, That sleeps and broods on its own heart. WORDSWORTH. FORGETTING the great end Of Poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of men. KEATS. Is there so small a range In the present strength of manhood, that the high Imagination...
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