 | William Ralph Hall Caine - 1892 - 320 Seiten
...Last Sonnet Written on a blank page of the Poems of Shahespeare, facing 'A Lover's 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... | |
 | William Sharp - 1892 - 370 Seiten
...friend, and which he gave to me in memory of our voyage, tho following maguificent sonnet : — " Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night Aud watching, with eternal lids apart. Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters... | |
 | James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 394 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 Seiten
...shoulders gleam awhile: He's gone ; up bubbles all his amorous breath t vm. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—- Not in...mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors.— No-yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for... | |
 | 1894 - 706 Seiten
...so many other interesting traces of his thought and feeling :— "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the...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... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 Seiten
...other interesting traces of his thought and feeling : " Bright star, would I were stedfast as them art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...insight of one initiated from birth into the secrets of nature. " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 Seiten
...FACING 'A LOVER'S COMPLAINT ' BRIGHT star, .would I were steadfast as thou art: Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...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, still unchangeable,... | |
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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... 
