Democracy and PoetryHoughton Mifflin-Company, 1911 - 328 pages |
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Adrasteia ancient appeal artistic ballad Beowulf called century chant choral chorus convention cracy critics dance demo democracy democratic democratic idea democratic movement dirge dream Earl of Murray emotion English epic essay fact famous Faroe Faroe Islanders force function of poetry genius Germanic Goethe Greek chorus grief Hebrew Herder Hero and Leander human ideal Idun imagined community improvisation individual Ishtar justice kind lament Leaves of Grass literary literature Loki Lord Lucretius lyric matter mocracy modern Montesquieu mood mystery myth narrative noble origins phrase poem poet poetic art political praise primitive Professor prose reaction reader religion repetition rhythm ritual Roman Rousseau Rousseau's says seems sense sentiment sing social group song spirit stanzas sure Taine tells thee Thiassi things thou thought throng tion tradition tragedy tragic triumph verse voice Walt Whitman Whitman word
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Page 39 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 319 - An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for...
Page 286 - Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 173 - He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Was the flower amang them a'.
Page 244 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 81 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 284 - Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.
Page 237 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 35 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 240 - They fought from heaven ; The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon.