 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
 | 1894 - 706 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,...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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 pages
...speaks in his most mature tone, it is the accent of Sophocles, not the accent of Spenser, we hear ' The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. ' ' Like anxious men Who on wide plains gather in panting troops, When earthquakes jar their battlements... | |
 | 1895 - 460 pages
...nature. " 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,...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... | |
 | 1895 - 656 pages
...hardly a matter of clear consciousness, and the threads are wellnigh inextricable, as in Keats : — " The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." One of the simplest and at the same time most magnificent examples of what I mean is the line from... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 348 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... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 348 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...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 338 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...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 408 pages
...Bright Star! would I were steadfast as tUou art—• Not in lone splendour hung aloft tho 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,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 406 pages
...Bright Star ! would I vrero 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 :— ' i~a — yet still... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 668 pages
...COMPLAINT ' BRK;HT 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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