 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
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...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 sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlikc task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask... | |
 | Love-knots - 1883 - 234 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 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... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 608 pages
...JbJ RlGHT 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— Lord Houghton records... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 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... | |
 | James Thomson, Bertram Dobell - 1884 - 370 pages
...trance divine : The Rose for Life's feast and the festal array, The Lily for Death's shrine. II. . " The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." — KEATS. The earth lay breathless in a fever-swoon Beneath the burning noon, Sun-stricken, dazed... | |
 | 1885 - 668 pages
...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... | |
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