 Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...  The Dial - Page 506edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form S Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light anci blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the Gods to pardon this... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...dawn, AMERICAN 1229 Circling above the hamlets as thy neSt; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. MIST LOW-ANCHORED cloud, Newfoundland air, Fountain-head and source of rivers, Dew-cloth, dream-drapery,... | |
 | Richard Bridgman - 1982 - 332 pages
...as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skins; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. (252) The comparison to Icarus is tenable only superficially: both the smoke and the wax of Icarus'... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1988 - 196 pages
...produced by human beings, one of which is his poem beginning "Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird" and ending "Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, / And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame."3 Frost reacted in an interesting way to Thoreau's attitudes toward man-made warmth and man-made... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn. Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; (1. 1—4) 7 gen is. (1. 12-14) AmPP; AnAmPo; MoAB; MoAmPo; Son Credo 9 I cannot find my way: there i (1. 9—10) AA; AWP; HelP; NOBA; NoP; OxBA; TAP FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR (1822-1874) Little Glffen 1... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. WITHIN THE CIRCUIT OF THIS PLODDING LIFE Within the circuit of this plodding life There enter moments... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 pages
...messenger of dawn. Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth. And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that, answered my purpose better than any other.... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets äs thy nest; 05 Or eise, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, 10 And ask the gods to pardon this clear flanic. Die Studenten erkannten trotz einiger lexikalischer... | |
 | David Mazel - 2001 - 388 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night...hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. The delicacy of the wraith-like movement finds its articulation in the succession of predominantly... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets at thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day 1. Cross-threads. i. In Greek myth, Icarus attempted to escape an 2. An estuary or a firth is the river's... | |
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