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... Truth . Every poem , it is said , should in- culcate a moral ; and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea ; and we Bostonians , very especially , have de ...
... Truth . Every poem , it is said , should in- culcate a moral ; and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea ; and we Bostonians , very especially , have de ...
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... truth , we need severity rather than efflorescence of language . We must be simple , precise , terse . We must be cool , calm , unimpas- sioned . In a word , we must be in that mood which , as nearly as possible , is the exact converse ...
... truth , we need severity rather than efflorescence of language . We must be simple , precise , terse . We must be cool , calm , unimpas- sioned . In a word , we must be in that mood which , as nearly as possible , is the exact converse ...
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... Truth . A few words , however , in explanation . That pleasure which is at once the most pure , the most elevating , and the most intense , is derived , I maintain , from the contemplation of the Beautiful . In the contemplation of ...
... Truth . A few words , however , in explanation . That pleasure which is at once the most pure , the most elevating , and the most intense , is derived , I maintain , from the contemplation of the Beautiful . In the contemplation of ...
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... Truth - if , to be sure , through the attainment of a truth , we are led to perceive a harmony where none was apparent before , we experience , at once , the true poetical effect — but this effect is referable to the harmony alone , and ...
... Truth - if , to be sure , through the attainment of a truth , we are led to perceive a harmony where none was apparent before , we experience , at once , the true poetical effect — but this effect is referable to the harmony alone , and ...
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... Truth . - Cease trying ! You will not read the riddle , though you do the best you can dc . [ To translate the address , read the first letter of the first line in connection with the second letter of the second line , the third letter ...
... Truth . - Cease trying ! You will not read the riddle , though you do the best you can dc . [ To translate the address , read the first letter of the first line in connection with the second letter of the second line , the third letter ...
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Page 268 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page xv - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page xxiv - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 20 - THE skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere ; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir : It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Page 10 - ... thing of evil ! — prophet Fa*y still, if bird or devil!— ^ Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore! Quoth the raven,
Page 27 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page xv - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 35 - Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.
Page 23 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 8 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,