Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice and hand shake still, —... Essays--Modern - Page 311by Frederic William Henry Myers - 1883 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 826 pages
...and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee ; which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, Tho allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. For Beauty,...how many ways and days ! There are some few hearts, uo doubt, in which " sky and sea " and the face of Nature are able to inspire this yearning passion.... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1871 - 314 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! VENUS. (For a Picture.} SHE hath the apple in her hand for thee, Yet almost in her heart would hold... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! SONNET LXXVIII. BODY'S BEAUTY. OF Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 pages
...praise Thy voice and hand shake still,—long known to thee By flying hair and fluttering hem,—the beat Following her daily of thy heart and feet, How...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! SONNET LXXVIII. BODY'S BEAUTY. OF Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! Lastly, is there not a terrible force, an uncompromising, almost Calvinistic blast of woful doom... | |
| 1882 - 816 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! Lastly, is there not a terrible force, an uncompromising, almost Cal•vinistic blast of woful doom... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 818 pages
...idealising spirit has reproduced the myth of the Phcedrw — even to the Tpityirai KOI iiiraBtl — the words that affirm the repose and well-being of...how many ways and days ! There are some few hearts, uo doubt, in which " sky and sea " and the face of Nature are able to inspire this yearning passion.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 800 pages
...sea bend on thee ; which can draw. By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of h>>r palm and wreath. For Beauty, as Plato has told us,...how many ways and days ! There are some few hearts, 110 doubt, in which " sky and sea " and the face of Nature are able to inspire this yearning passion.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days! NEWBORN DEATH. To-day Death seems to me an infant child Which her worn mother Life upon my knee Has... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...— which can draw, By sea or sky or woman, to one law, The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath. This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise Thy voice...irretrievably, In what fond flight, how many ways and days ! NEWBORN DEATH. To-day Death seems to me an infant child Which her worn mother Life upon my knee Has... | |
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