...out, but for him the blackness and blindness of night had never so utterly fallen. CHAPTER II. " THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, OF THE NIGHT FOR THE MORROW." HOURS passed by uncounted, unheeded by him ; the chimes of the campanile had chimed twelve, and one,...

...out, but for him the blackness and blindness of night had never so utterly fallen. t CHAPTER II. "THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, OF THE NIGHT FOR THE MOE11OW." HOURS passed by uncounted, unheeded by him ; the chimes of the campanile had chimed twelve,...

...call love, but wilt thou accept not the worship the heart lifts above and the heavens reject not; the desire of the moth for the star, of the night for...devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow? PB SHELLEY 501 rT'HERE is a shadow for each bough -L that bends across the lake; an answering echo...

...love ; But will thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? Shelley. LXX. A song to lay at the feet of my Love — Something that when the singing is done, And...

...call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? ViL THE FLIGHT OF LOVE. HEN the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead— When the cloud...

...love ! King of a realm without a throne, Ruled by resistless tears alone ! TO M , FROM ABROAD. "The desire of the moth for the star — Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our Borrow." SHELI.EV. " L'alma, quel che non ha, sogna e flk'ura." METASTASIU. As, gazing on the Pleiades,...

...thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not ; The desire of the north for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? WONT YOU TELL ME WHY, EOBIN ? Ci.ilUDia.~l [Jfusic by Ci..iulii1.L. Yoti are not what you were, Robin,...

...deserving of our acute pity. Love pre-supposes equality. It sounds well when a poet rhymes of " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow;" but, in the order of " natural selection," all such desires are unlawful, not to be gratified ; and,...

...Vibrates in the memory ; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. TO . The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 182i. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering...

...describes the passionate yearning for the Unseen which seems never quite extinct in the soul of man : "The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." t. Augustine is a memorable example of the same phenomenon. understood. Annihilation is generally used...