 By your beauty, which confesses Some chief Beauty conquering you, — By our grand heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, — We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies...  Irish Monthly Magazine - Page 7621877Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...True, — We will weep not . . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 396 pages
...not endure ; hut to him the statue was a symbol, not an idol. No, sweet singer, it is not true that "Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And those debonnaire romances Sound but dull beside the Truth." For Art is that debonnaire romance in which Truth... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...— We will weep not . . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Fan is dead. xxXiv. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 314 pages
...the True,— We will weep not. . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each God's aureole— And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...have created* in him; and beside these truths of nature all lower things must stand back abashed. " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And these debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...falsehood at the True, We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole, And Pan is dead. " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run ! Look up, poets, to the sun ! Pan, Pan is dead. Truth is fair, should we forego it ? Can we sigh right for a wrong ? God himself is the best poet,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...most of all precious, for its bold modernism, and haughty protest against the cant of classicism, " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth: And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 328 pages
...at the True, — We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her...debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up, poets, to the sun ! Pan, Pan is dead. Christ hath sent us... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1862 - 368 pages
...falsehood at the True We will weep not ! Earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
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