 Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. And now upon his western wing he leaned, Now his huge bulk o'er Afric's sands careened, Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old...  University of Toronto Monthly - Page 1111906Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...than our skies To feed the flow of tuneful strings, Show but a pool of scum for shooting flies. 48 LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT On a starred night Prince Lucifer...his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, 10 He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank.... | |
 | George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan - English poetry - 1912 - 656 pages
...pallid day To lift the hueless flower and show that dead, Even such, and by this token, is their youth. LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT * ON a starred night Prince Lucifer...pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe,1 He reached the middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...than our skies To feed the flow of tuneful strings, Show but a pool of scum for shooting flies. 48 o, all is hush'd and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful...ancient pillars rear their marble heads, 1 Cf. Ga - 10 He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...than our skies To feed the flow of tuneful strings, Show but a pool of scum for shooting flies. 48 t is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of...that cometh is vanity." _ This fair is no new-erected io He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 530 pages
...specter of repose. Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. 5 ' "chirping," or cheering, cup. And now upon his western wing he leaned, Now his huge...Awe, He reached a middle height, and at the stars, ii Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track inarched, rank on rank,... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. 5 And now upon his western wing he leaned. Now his huge...his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, 10 He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank:... | |
 | Authorship - 1926 - 694 pages
...^504!=IMWitcr Sestet I Soaring through wider zones that Anticipation of prick'd his scars Main Idea. With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached...and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he look'd and sank. Sestet II Around the ancient track march'd, Climax and rank on rank, Main Idea. The... | |
 | University of Adelaide. Public Examinations Board - Examinations - 1928 - 1280 pages
...Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose. Poor pi-ey to his hot fit of pride were those. And now upon his...height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, lie looked, and sank. Around the ancient track, marched, rank on mnk, The army of unalterable law.... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...is one of the most successful, and ends with a line that TS Eliot was later to make ironic use of: Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Aw , He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank.... | |
 | Robert L. Phillips, Robert L., Jr. Phillips - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 276 pages
...Starlight." Davis, in the years that followed the war, may not, like the Lucifer of the poem, have "Soar[ed] through wider zones that pricked his scars/ with memory of the old revolt from Awe," but Foote seems to imply that Davis realized, "Around the ancient track, marched rank on rank,/ The... | |
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