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... poet he has no purpose ; that he but sings as the linnet , and speaks in numbers because the numbers come . If the urgency to utter- ance is so strong as to obliterate consciousness of an objective effect , this does not prove that the ...
... poet he has no purpose ; that he but sings as the linnet , and speaks in numbers because the numbers come . If the urgency to utter- ance is so strong as to obliterate consciousness of an objective effect , this does not prove that the ...
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... poetic construction . Skill in speaking and writing come not by application of rhetorical devices , but by a full , active , and versatile life . The metaphor is a good rhetorical instrument , but it must be born in the writing and not ...
... poetic construction . Skill in speaking and writing come not by application of rhetorical devices , but by a full , active , and versatile life . The metaphor is a good rhetorical instrument , but it must be born in the writing and not ...
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... poet , filled with fine emotions and beautiful imagery ; but in his day writings that did not carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ...
... poet , filled with fine emotions and beautiful imagery ; but in his day writings that did not carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ...
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... Poetry , or literary discourse . Prose , or didactic discourse , seeks to inform the in- tellect , to communicate to it knowledge for its own sake . This process involves the sensibility and the will , as the mind must be stimulated by ...
... Poetry , or literary discourse . Prose , or didactic discourse , seeks to inform the in- tellect , to communicate to it knowledge for its own sake . This process involves the sensibility and the will , as the mind must be stimulated by ...
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... Poetry , or literary discourse , awakens emotions for their own sake , and not to serve as motives to action . One may contemplate a waterfall or a landscape and find his reward in the contemplation . Hearing the song of a bird or ...
... Poetry , or literary discourse , awakens emotions for their own sake , and not to serve as motives to action . One may contemplate a waterfall or a landscape and find his reward in the contemplation . Hearing the song of a bird or ...
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Page 220 - FEAR death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 219 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 90 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 204 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou/' I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !
Page 333 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Page 338 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 332 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 261 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 64 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 221 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.