 tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years. An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form...  American Literature - Page 297by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jutta Ernst - 1996 - 218 pages
...Mutter and mumblc Iow, And hither and thither lly Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding ofvast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! (V. 9-16) Ein nicht näher bestimmtes Schicksal, repräsentiert durch die "vast formless things",... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 408 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high. Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama! — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased forever more.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama! — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased" forevermore,y... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, 10 Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly...formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, 1 5 Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2001 - 194 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama! - oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased forever more,... | |
 | Alan Louis Ackerman - 1999 - 302 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breaths fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe! But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe! That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore, By... | |
 | William Solomon - 2002 - 294 pages
...urban environment marks the obsolescence of pastoral aesthetics. MACHINE-AGE MIMICRY Mimes . . . Merc puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Worm" The ludicrous protagonist of Mimes is lodged firmly within the... | |
 | Bill Bowers - 2003 - 400 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Flapping from out their Condor wings invisible woe! That motley drama! — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore, By... | |
 | Tom Weaver - 2003 - 732 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears. While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe! That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore. By... | |
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