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...n of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many war-poets did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he d... ...e to the next. All the poet can do to-day is to warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. If I thought the letter of this book would last, I ... ...ers. The front line withers, But they are troops who fade, not flowers For poets’ tearful fooling: Men, gaps for filling Losses who might have fought ... ...nd stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime. — Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning...

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..., C.B., by whom it is dated 1817. Mighty eagle! thou that soarest O’er the misty mountain forest, And amid the light of morning Like a cloud of glory ... ...), but assigned by Mrs. Shelley to 1819. Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets’ food is love and fame: If in this wide world of care Poets could but... ...e As the light chameleons do, Suiting it to every ray T wenty times a day? Poets are on this cold earth, _1... ...ave beneath the sea; Where light is, chameleons change: Where love is not, poets do: _15 Fame is love disgu... ...15 Fame is love disguised: if few Find either, never think it strange That poets range. Yet dare not stain with wealth or power A poet’s free and heav... ...s”, 1839, 2nd edition. How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Of mighty poets and to hear the while Sweet music, which when the attention fails Fil... ... sun, To rise upon our darkness, if the star Now beckoning thee out of thy misty throne Could thaw the clouds which wage an obscure war With thy young... .... 1. 1. 1. Swiftly walk o’er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest drea...

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...sh begins to 5 Thackeray pipe and carol, as in the days of boyhood; hence misty morali- ties, reflections, and sad and pleasant remembrances arise. H... ...t of the paint- ers and tell us who are they? How many among these men are POETS (makers), possessing the faculty to create, the great- est among the ...

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...a beautiful young lady, of fam ily and fortune, was enshrouded within the misty drapery of the veil. It was white, with somewhat of a subdued silver ... ...ve you up as an associate, than that the world should lose one of its true poets!” “Ah, no; there will not be the slightest danger of that, es pecial... ...Well, say so if you like,” answered Zenobia. “You are a poet,—at least, as poets go nowadays,—and must be allowed to make an opera glass of your imagi... ...rs, and crept about in a sort of noonday twilight, making himself gray and misty , at all hours, with his morbid intolerance of sunshine. In his torpi... ... I spent painful hours in recalling these trifles, and rendering them more misty and unsubstan tial than at first by the quantity of speculative musi... ...your soul’s ache into it, and turn your sympathy to good account, as other poets do, and as poets must, unless they choose to give us glittering icicl...

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... epigrams of this period—some by Callimachus—directed against the “cyclic” poets, by whom were meant at that time those who were always dragging in co... ...asing breeze ever bore the ship onward. (ll. 580 591) And straightway the misty land of the Pelasgians, rich in cornfields, sank out of sight, and ev... ... of Thrace opposite appeared to view close at hand. And there appeared the misty mouth of Bosporus and the Mysian hills; and on the other side the str... ...where lady Calypso, daughter of Atlas, dwelt; and they deemed they saw the misty mountains of Thunder. And then Hera be thought her of the counsels a... ...om the top of the crags, above the rock glowing with fire, and the air was misty with smoke, nor could you have seen the sun’s light. Then, though Hep...

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...e eagle’s cry was hushed; “it is like the music of those Eolian harps your poets hang in forests and on the mountains. Do you see the shad- owy figure... ...words of his greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seer... ...e the Mammons?” “Yes”; answered David, as though awaking from a dream. The misty gleam of his eyes melted into a ray that came direct from the soul an... ...e whose colors and masses are skilfully and harmoniously marshalled by the poets, and whose personages, imaginary actors to men, are real to those who... ... them; none were prompted by any human interest. Your great geniuses, your poets, your kings, your learned men are engulfed with their cities; while t... ...eyond, the sea hemmed in this page of Nature, written by the great- est of poets, Chance; to whom the wild luxuriance of cre- ation when apparently ab...

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...conceived without—” She stopped. During this moment when her thoughts were misty and her soul floated in a region of fantasy her naivete made her attr... ...the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shad- ows. Across the misty ideas suggested by her long study of this beautiful landscape, observ... ...heartening had either given a meaning to their confused desires. They were poets and poem both. Music, the most sensual of arts for loving souls, was ...

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... a night of turbulent pleasures, his hand still tottering, his sight still misty and confused, he would be called out of bed in the black hours before... ...red to the wick and began to expand and clarify, and shed a wide circle of misty brightness round the gig, it became possible for the two young men to... ...n exercise of will I have destroyed him. There is something like it in the poets. First, a brilliant and con- spicuous career—the observed, I may say,...

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...iscences Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening be... ...at, cruising under close reefs on the look-out, in 114 Some Reminiscences misty, blowing weather, for the sails of ships and the smoke of steamers ri...

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...ise gone.— ‘Where sleeps the Chief?’ the henchman said. ‘ Apart, in yonder misty glade; T o his lone couch I’ll be your guide.’— Then called a slumber... ...n forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den.” Cf. Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat: “Of Poets Prince, whether we woon beside Faire Xanthus sprincled with Chimaeras... ... his own lyricks as an opiate to the chief, when indisposed for sleep; but poets are not equally esteemed and honored in all countries. I happened to ... ...ry passion or fancy, and appears, therefore, at first shallower than other poets, being in reality wider and healthier” (Ruskin). 344. Bosky. Bushy, w...

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...we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics. Shall I give you examples? It is ... ...implest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it. Read French poetry. With the first couplet the sails ar... ..., if it were permitted to him). Nothing was too white, too saintly, or too misty, for his conception of ab- stract woman. But the practical wants of o... ... it seemed the very chorus of the heavens that she commanded, and a subtle misty glory descended upon her forehead, which he was long in perceiving to... ...he other. Those were happy old days!” He shook his head at them across the misty gulf. “Perhaps there’s a good farce going on now. If so, we’ll go. Gi... ...ere, stop where you are, my dear. Don’t begin to dance!” He pressed at his misty eyes, half under the impression that she was taking a succession of d... ... with us; and we never did a wiser thing than when we decided to patronize poets. If kept in order—un- der—they are the aristocracy of light conversat... ..., he folded the mental image of Emilia closely to his breast, and framed a misty idea of a little lighted cot- tage wherein she sat singing to herself... ...d now he yawns!’ you’re saying. You’re wrong. We Army men feel just as you poets do, and for a longer time, I think, though perhaps not so acutely. I ...

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...r; struggled back toward his dream. He could see only her face now, beyond misty waters. The furnace-man slammed the basement door. A dog barked in th... ...nd hand-shaking house- organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business. He had painfully written out a first draft, and he inton... ... The only thing is: I wonder if it sells the goods? Course, like all these poets, this Prince Albert fellow lets his idea run away with him. It makes ... ...ie Swanson. “You ought to get him easy, Mr. Frink, you and he being fellow-poets,” said Louetta Swanson. “Fellow-poets, rats! Where d’ you get that st... ...talking with bank-presidents, con- gressmen, and clubwomen who entertained poets. He was bright and referential with McKelvey: “Say, Charley, juh reme... ...the sto- ries. These children seemed bold to him, and cold. The girls wore misty chiffon, coral velvet, or cloth of gold, and around their dipping bob...

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...ing to be!” He pointed over their heads, to where a white moon hung in the misty blue above the roofs of the rue de Rivoli. She made no answer, and he... ...pre- sented Miss Summers with a prettily-bound anthology of the old French poets and, when she showed a discriminating plea- sure in the gift, observe... ...nious length, the soberness of its lines softened to grace in the luminous misty air. Darrow stood still, and Anna felt that his glance was trav- elli... ...om himself to Owen Leath, or have remarked that her eyes had hardened from misty grey to a shining darkness. But her observer was less struck by this ...

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...’s charge. The joy of her love for it was written on its lustrous beds, as poets write. She had the poetic passion for flowers. Perhaps her taste may ... ...ldren to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants... ...oda to read; good authors, she emphasized, and named books of history, and poets, and quoted their verses. “For my darling will some day have a dear h... ...ad flattened their noses to the whiteness of winkles against the jealously misty windows. Algernon knew himself to be accounted a generous fellow, and... ...oint the speech of fools. He continued strolling on, comparing the cramped misty London aspect of things with his visionary free dream of the glorious... ... done for. All felt that he had gone miles beyond the mark. Those were the misty days when fogs rolled up the salt river from the winter sea, and the ...

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...ells bishop to greet the gathering daylight. It became a little clamour, a misty sea of sound in which individuality appeared and disappeared. For a t... ... This God—this God here, that you want to worship, is a God of artists and poets—of elegant poets, a God of bric-a- brac, a God of choice allusions. O...

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...er, ’ said he, ‘slaughtered par- tridges a score of brace to each gun, and poets gauging ale-barrels, with sixty pounds a year, at Dumfries, are not t... ...oud-speaking friend, tell me, if so much be in you, what is the demand for poets in these king- doms of Queen Victoria, and what the vouchsafed sup- p... ... poachers. We were unwilling, however, to take lessons in politics from so misty a pro- fessor; and when he came to tell us that the heroes of Westmin...

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...and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French po- ets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening ... ... big half-decked pilot-boat, cruising under close reefs on the lookout, in misty, blowing weather, for the sails of ships and the smoke of steam- 96 ...

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...came for her an actual passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of Ne... ...how futile it is, how empty, a vanity of vanities. I had imagined that the poets were wrong, were idealists, see- ing the things that should be rather... ...nce—in my heart, in my very hand, like a mysterious, beautiful exotic. The poets are wrong,” he added. “They have not been idealists enough. I wish— a... ...“outpour- ings,” queer little speculations about her soul, quotations from poets, solemn criticisms of new novels, or as often as not mere purposeless... ...CLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION The evening had closed in wet and misty. All day long a chill wind had blown across the city from off the lak...

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...the sharp- ness of the wind or the heat of the sun, or the dampness of the misty atmosphere, he exhibited a set of the whitest teeth in the reddest of... ...ut her toilet, pleased with the airy nothings so seductive to women and to poets. She understands very well that after Madame de Stael there is no pla... ...roubled spirits, with the Roman Church, ever kind to repentance, poetic to poets, childlike with children, and yet so profound, so full of mys- tery t... ...rty of Monsieur le Duc de Rhetore’? You had much better give that money to poets, who would carry you in prose and verse to immortality , like the lat...

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... Albinia soliloquized. ‘It is not doing the place justice to study it on a misty, moisty morning. It looks now as if that fever might have come bodily... ...erself out of a spectral haunting fancy that sickness lurked in the heavy, misty atmosphere. She dreamt of it and the four babies, started, awoke, and... ... more gentle and affectionate, and she made him tell her about the Persian poets, and promise to show her some specimens of the Rose Garden of Saadi—s... ...back, as they trusted, but the rapid mo- tion, and their eyes strained and misty with alarm, caused an agony of uncertainty. Albinia pointed across th... ...ad lot about him, that’s the worst—Polish counts, disreputable artists and poets, any one who has a spurious sort of fame, and knows how to flatter hi...