The Spiritual Message of Modern English PoetryMacmillan, 1924 - 288 էջ |
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... given poetry a new inspiration ? It does not seem to be the first effect of scientific study ; and it is thought by many to be materialistic rather than spiritual , to lessen ideality by the removal of mystery , to clip the wings of ...
... given poetry a new inspiration ? It does not seem to be the first effect of scientific study ; and it is thought by many to be materialistic rather than spiritual , to lessen ideality by the removal of mystery , to clip the wings of ...
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... given powerful impulse to literature . The idea of force at the heart of things , ever at work changing and shaping , the dynamic of endless growth , has given a new interest to nature . It is not finished , fixed , mechanical ; but a ...
... given powerful impulse to literature . The idea of force at the heart of things , ever at work changing and shaping , the dynamic of endless growth , has given a new interest to nature . It is not finished , fixed , mechanical ; but a ...
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... given interest to the minutest phases , the most transient changes of natural life . So a world of new imagery has been found to express the unfolding revelation . It is the symbolism of life , of changing , growing life . The earth ...
... given interest to the minutest phases , the most transient changes of natural life . So a world of new imagery has been found to express the unfolding revelation . It is the symbolism of life , of changing , growing life . The earth ...
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... given us a universe tremu- lous with charm , life tragic with import . " The passion for development controls our writers . Ours is the age of the poetry of struggle , not of victory ; of desire , not of achievement ; of growth , not of ...
... given us a universe tremu- lous with charm , life tragic with import . " The passion for development controls our writers . Ours is the age of the poetry of struggle , not of victory ; of desire , not of achievement ; of growth , not of ...
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... given "an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, to see into the life of things." And it is well at times to be called away from the dust and din of city streets, away from the close air of artificial life ...
... given "an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, to see into the life of things." And it is well at times to be called away from the dust and din of city streets, away from the close air of artificial life ...
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Էջ 53 - LOST LEADER Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags, — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Էջ 25 - Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Էջ 33 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 9 - The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Էջ 143 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Էջ 57 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Էջ 88 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Էջ 109 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more ' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd
Էջ 277 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Էջ 28 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.