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
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pages
...: ' Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hnng aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores,. Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
| 1889 - 546 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... | |
| Charles Henry Crandall - 1890 - 400 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,... | |
| John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...JJRIGHT 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... | |
| William Watson - 1892 - 272 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... | |
| William Ralph Hall Caine - 1892 - 320 pages
...Complaint' BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, The moving waters at their priest-like 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 - 1893 - 696 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 Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 394 pages
...beliefs, and were not simply the outcome of a poetic imagination. Keats, in one of his Sonnets, speaks of "The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shore." Here he gives us the poetical and not the actual interpretation of a natural phenomenon. We... | |
| James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 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... | |
| John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...: " Bright star, would I were stedfast as them art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
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