 There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us -...  Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 29by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course ; 50 A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...— to know Whence our lives come, and where they goAnd many a man in his own breast then delves, 55 But deep enough, alas! none ever mines. And we have... | |
 | Olwen Ward Campbell - 1924 - 362 pages
...to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true original course ; A longing to enquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild,...to know Whence our lives come and where they go." l Shelley showed first when he composed Alastor that he would deal mainly with this side of human life... | |
 | George Dawes Hicks - 1928 - 184 pages
...buried life ; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course ; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...to know Whence our lives come and where they go." That deep craving, that inexpressible desire, which you will find everywhere encountering you, it will... | |
 | Mary Caroline Richards - 1973 - 268 pages
...buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...go. And many a man in his own breast then delves, But deep enough, alas! none ever mines. And we have been on many thousand lines; And we have shown,... | |
 | B. C. Southam - 1996 - 292 pages
...Life' (1852) by Matthew Arnold seems to be the source of this phrase. In Arnold, the 'buried life' is 'the mystery of this heart which beats /So wild, so deep in us' the impulsive, passionate side of the human nature that we so often try to ignore or suppress. Throughout... | |
 | Michael McGhee - 2000 - 308 pages
...buried life': A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...- to know Whence our lives come and where they go Again he perceives the necessity of an inward turn, but it is an inward turn that has an outward expression,... | |
 | David K. Naugle - 2002 - 406 pages
...buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...us — to know Whence our lives come and where they go.23 The mystery of a heart is the mystery of its Weltanschauung. The mystery of a Weltanschauung... | |
 | 1982 - 512 pages
...buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...go. And many a man in his own breast then delves, But deep enough, alas! none ever mines. Thus with Eliot we are not ahead of Arnold; where we need not... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 pages
...life, A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; 2097 A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...go. And many a man in his own breast then delves, But deep enough, alas ! none ever mines. And we have been on many thousand lines, And we have shown,... | |
 | 1899 - 560 pages
...his poetry? It was "the eternal note of sadness," "a brooding over man's destiny," the Weltschmerz, A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart...us — to know Whence our lives come and where they go.8 His poetry was an attempt to express " the world's deep, inarticulate craving for spiritual peace."... | |
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