 Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned ; and though her gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee,...  Essays--Modern - Page 310by Frederic William Henry Myers - 1883 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 826 pages
...certain even that they are p?rmanent — that this aesthetic paradise of the well-to-do may not sometimes be convulsed by an invasion from the rough world without....Beauty enthroned ; and though her gaze struck awe, Eossetti was ignorant of Greek, and it seems doubtful whether he knew Plato even by translations. But... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1871 - 314 pages
...so went Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent, SIBYLLA PALMIFERA. (For a Picture.) UNDER the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, 1 saw Beauty enthroned ; and though her gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 pages
...ye idle in the market-place. Which of ye knoweth fie is not that last SONNET LXXVII. SOUL'S BEAUTY. UNDER the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee,—which can draw, By sea or... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...seen by the eye to which experience has given force of penetration and thoroughness of insight : — Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1882 - 616 pages
...after the appointed days And hours shall give a Future to their Past ? SONNET LXXVII. SOUL'S BEAUTY. UNDER the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 pages
...seen by the eye to which experience has given force of penetration and thoroughness of insight : — Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 pages
...in whose praise " Eossetti's hand and voice were never tirecl, and his vision of her is thus — " Under the arch of Life, where Love and Death, Terror...Mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned." The palm-bearing Sibyl sits in a kind of stone alcove forming the arch of Life, above her head on the... | |
 | Burlington Fine Arts Club, Henry Virtue Tebbs - 1883 - 70 pages
...written on the subject and will be found amongst the printed Poe1ns, p. 270 : — SIBYLLA PALMIFERA. Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 - 196 pages
...was written on the subject and will be found amongst the printed Poems, p. 270:— SIBYLLA PALMIFERA. Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee,—which can draw, By sea or... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. SIBYLLA PALMIFERA. (for a Picture.) Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror...gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath, The sky and sea bend on thee, — which can draw, By sea... | |
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