A Study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris: With an Introd. on the Course of Poetry from 1822 to 1852 |
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Arnold artist Balder battle beauty Byron Callicles calm charm clear close Clough colour death deep dream earth Earthly Paradise elements emotion Empedocles England English English poetry excellence faith fate feeling felt genius Greek Guenevere happy heart hope human ideal ideas imagination intensity invented Iseult Italian Italian poetry John Ball Keats landscape live love-poetry loveliness matter Matthew Arnold mediæval modern Moreover Morris mystic narrative poetry natural description ness never noble Obermann Ogier the Dane pain painted passion past peace picture pity pleasure poem poet poetic prose quiet realism religious romantic Rose Rossetti scenery Scholar Gipsy Shelley sonnets sorrow soul spirit stoic stoicism story tale tell temper tender Tennyson things thou thought tion touch trouble true truth verse Volsunga Saga wander weary whole women Wordsworth wrote young youth
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Page 218 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 120 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 114 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 28 - ... arm in arm, how pleasant here to pace; Or, o'er the stern reclining, watch below The foaming wake far widening as we go. On stormy nights when wild northwesters rave, How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave! The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear, and scorns to wish it past. Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
Page 113 - DOVER BEACH THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone ; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 44 - Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain.
Page 62 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Page 105 - Lean'd on his gate, he gazes - tears Are in his eyes, and in his ears The murmur of a thousand years. Before him he sees life unroll, A placid and continuous whole — That general life, which does not cease, Whose secret is not joy, but peace; That life, whose dumb wish is not miss'd If birth proceeds, if things subsist; The life of plants, and stones, and rain, The life he craves — if not in vain Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Page 113 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Page 109 - Ye alight in our van! at your voice, Panic, despair, flee away. Ye move through the ranks, recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave!