 O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity. Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou...  The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 670edited by - 1901 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1883 - 310 pages
...panting and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue....say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ON INDOLENCE. "They toil not, neither do they spin."... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 pages
...priest ! Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands dress'd ? What little town, by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built...say'st — Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty : that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. TO AUTUMN. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness !... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 0 Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...say'st : 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' ODE. Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...say'st : 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' ODE. Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 420 pages
...What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets...say'st, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ODE TO PSYCHE O GODDESS ! hear these tuneless numbers,... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 310 pages
...peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore 5O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ODE TO PSYCHE. 0 GODDESS ! hear these tuneless numbers,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. 5O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...say'st : 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.1 ODE. Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for ever' more Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art...say'st : " Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." LINES ON THE MERMAID TA VERN. SOULS of poets dead and... | |
 | William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 284 pages
...freedom. He has realised his own ideal. As he says in the last stanza of the ' Ode on the Grecian Urn'— O Attic shape ! Fair Attitude ! with brede Of marble...sayst ' Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty '—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. With what skill he had learned to call up a picture... | |
 | Criticism - 1885 - 996 pages
...have been lost or melted, but the little fretted Greek urn we keep among our immortal treasures. " O Attic shape ! fair attitude ! with brede Of marble...say'st, ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' — that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know." Art, then, in a word, cannot be expected to make much... | |
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