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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... DECEMBER. For Winter came: the wind was his whip; One choppy finger was on his lip: He had torn the cataracts from the hills, And they clanked at his girdle like manacles; His breath was a chain that without a sound The earth, and the air, and the water bound; He came, fiercely driven in his chariot-throne By the ten-fold blasts of the arctic zone. The Sensitive Plant, Part iii. There is one road To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye! Love sometimes leads astray to misery. Julian and Maddalo. Fearless he was, and scorning all disguise, What he dared do or think, though men might start, He spoke with mild yet unaverted eyes. Prince Athanase, Part i. December 2. POETS ARE PROPHETS. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Essays and Letters from A broad: A Defence of Poetry. December 3. A SONG. A widow bird sate mourning for her love Upon a wintry bough; The frozen wind crept on above, The freezing stream below. There was no leaf upon the forest bare, No flower upon the ground, And little motion in the air Except the mill-wheel's sound. Charles I., Scene 5. December 2. Among those who attempt to exist without human sympathy, the pure and tender-hearted perish through the intensity and passion of their search after its communities, when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt Those who love not their fellow-beings, live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. Preface to ' Alasl&r." December 5 is not to-day enough? Why do I peer into the darkness of the day to come? Is not to-morrow even as yesterday? And will the day that follows change thy doom? Few flowers grow up...
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- EditoreGeneral Books LLC
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1151590088
- ISBN 13 9781151590084
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine28
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