 | 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... | |
 | 226 Seiten
...unseen, held communion with the far. Shelley has thus expressed the yearnings of a poet's soul :— The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. It has ever been a favourite thought with us, that " imagination is often prophecy, and the poet a... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 Seiten
...does not possess truth. All loves are endless — all have for centre the infinite. It is — " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow." " Love," says Hazlitt, "is an ideal passion. We give to it our all of hope, of fear, of present enjoyment;... | |
 | 1856 - 642 Seiten
...theories grew from what is best and loftiest in this strangely -mingled nature of ours : The <lesiro of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow ; Tho longing for something afur From the sphere of our sorrow. And the wisdom of those elder thinkers,... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 Seiten
...human worth, the fullest of foul suspicions concerning our neighbours, and the least pervaded with The worship the heart lifts above, And the heavens...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. When, in a word, we are most inclined to sneer, and are least conscious of the overarching Infinite,... | |
 | 1858 - 398 Seiten
...instance of his manner of treating this difficult subject : — " I can give not what men call love, " The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ?" This avoiding of that minute description of particular charms was in Shelley the result of his perfect... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...not what men call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above. And the Heaven's reject not .' The desire of the moth for the star...the morrow ; The devotion to something afar From the iphere of our sorrow TO A LADY WITH A GUITAR. Ariel to Miranda : — Take This slave of music, for... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 Seiten
...thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens...something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? PB Shelley ccrv GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Pibroch of Donuil Wake thy wild... | |
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I can give not what men 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 the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow... 
