 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 Seiten
...accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for lho star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? MUSIC. I PAWI for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower ; Pour forth... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 Seiten
...The worship the heart lifts above _ And the Heavens reject not : (The desire of the moth for the : 1 Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. GOOD-NIGHT. Guon-MiriHT? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite ; Let us remain... | |
 | William Whiteman Fosdick - 1855 - 382 Seiten
...hearts which beat as one," BO long separated, must ever feel " The desire of the moth for the star, The night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow I" PROSFEKO. " DOST thou forget From what a torment I did free thee I" AKIEL. " No." PKOSPEBO. " Thou... | |
 | Theodore Hartmann - 1859 - 622 Seiten
...month. You are a boy-lover, and woo her as yet with The desire of the north for the star, Of the day for the morrow ; The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. She withdraws her coy yet half-reluctant head. " Good night," she says, " Willie," and half turns from... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1872 - 648 Seiten
...common or equal one.' So Pascal seems to have felt ' The desire of the moth to the star, Of the day to the morrow ; The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.' It is something not uncommon in the history of eminent men. An Addison woos a countess for fifteen... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1873 - 470 Seiten
...the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not. The desire of tho moth for the star, Of the nhiht for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? — PB Shelley. IT was not with a light heart — for I loved Glanville too well not to bo powerfully... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 384 Seiten
...our reach and -lies beyond the region of our life. " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the day for the morrow ; The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." Now to divine hope we look for the realization of whatever is true and good in the dreams of the soul.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 490 Seiten
...insect you have sheltered. I must come to the poets to express it— 'The desire of the moth for tho star, Of the night for the morrow; The devotion, to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.' On, that something afar! that something afar! never to bo reached on this earth—never, never!" There... | |
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Is it not strange that we mortals, placed amid perpetual agitation and tumult and strife, as if our natural element, conceive a sense of holiness in the images antagonistic to our real life; I mean in images of repose? I feel at the moment as if I suddenly... 
