VEXATION waits on passion's changeful glow, But th' intellect may rove a thousand ways, And yet be calm while fluctuating so : The dew-drop shakes not to its shifting rays And transits of soft light. Be bold to choose This never satiate freedom of delight,... Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces - Page 12by Charles Tennyson Turner - 1830 - 83 pagesFull view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 722 pages
...dew-drop shakes not to its shifting rays And transits of soft light. Be bold to choose This never satiate freedom of delight, Before the fiery bowl and red...lowlier aims to feed, And go in glory to a sage's tomb. II. ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE. 'T is good our earliest sympathies to trace,... | |
| Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 364 pages
...dew-drop shakes not to its shifting rays And transits of soft light. Be bold to choose This never satiate freedom of delight, Before the fiery bowl and red...assume, Strong as the centre of the deep Maelstroom, ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE. 'T is good our earliest sympathies to trace,... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd - 1879 - 238 pages
..." Oh, man ! relinquish Passion's baleful joys," &c. pp. 172,173. POEMS BY CHAHLES TENNYSON, 1830. " Strong as the centre of the deep maelstroom When flung into the calm of sightless speed. Sonnet 9 (p. 12). " Vexation waits on Passion's changeful glow, But th' intellect may rove a thousand... | |
| Charles Tennyson Turner - English poetry - 1880 - 430 pages
...shakes not to its shifting rays And transits of soft light — be bold to choose This never satiate freedom of delight Before the fiery bowl and red carouse,...will thy mind a giant force assume, Strong as the center of the deep Maelstroom When flung into the calm of sightless speed : ' So wilt thou scorn on... | |
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