 BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art :— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's...  Dante and His Ideal - Page 49by Herbert Baynes - 1891 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...I3right star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 420 pages
...SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast,... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pages
...stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lips apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorg — • No— yet still... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal Hps apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — • No— yet still... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pages
...Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors, — No, — yet still... | |
 | John Keats - 1863 - 496 pages
...BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as them art ! I Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : No — yet still steadfast,... | |
 | 1863 - 438 pages
...RIGHT Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — \-J Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still... | |
 | 1866 - 396 pages
...1> RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient,...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors:— No—yet still steadfast,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...SONNET. BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art ! Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient...task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : No ! yet still steadfast,... | |
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