 How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But...  Aftermath from City and Country, Berg and Thal - Page 169by Mrs. B. M. Buckhout - 1882 - 265 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1903 - 940 pages
...Siam. 172 CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF DAXTE. [Nov., CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF DANTE. BY AC STOKER. " Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...pain, , Uprose this poem of the earth and air, * This mediaeval miracle of song ! " — Longfellow on tkt " Diviaa Commedia." * fHE student who would hope... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1903 - 326 pages
...universal experience, and in a form permanent through its exceeding beauty. — Charles Allen Dinsmore. Ah, from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! Longfellow. WITNESSES OF THE LIGHT DANTE, THE POET " IT is intended," says... | |
 | Jack London, Anna Strunsky - 1903 - 306 pages
...infinite moment of meeting in paradise with his Lady was embittered by her " cold, lessoned smiles." " Ah, from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! " It was for Beatrice that this man vexed his spirit with immortal effort... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1903 - 412 pages
...in-ward and to build up out of his very sufferiugs and sorrow, his immortal poem: — Ah! from what agony of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, — This mediaeval miracle of song. 29 We see, then, that even more important than in the case of other poets... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This medieval miracle of song! INFERNO CANTO I MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 302 pages
...and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song! I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This medieval miracle of song 1 1804. 1886. Ill I enter, and I see thee in the gloom lisles, O poet saturnine... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1905 - 348 pages
...upon anything resembling deep sympathy with the human heart in its inward sorrow and daily burden. " Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...in pain Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song!" LONGFELLOW. There may have been ' ' agonies of heart and brain," and there... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1905 - 346 pages
...upon anything resembling deep sympathy with the human heart in its inward sorrow and daily burden. " Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...in pain Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song!" LONGFELLOW. There may have been "agonies of heart and brain," and there... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! All ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song 1 1884. 1866. Ill I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles,... | |
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