 OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully and far away, First lets his fingers wander as they list, And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay : Then, as the touch of his loved instrument Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme,...  Good Housekeeping Magazine - Page 2091888Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 pages
...yet are one In spirit and the love of holy things. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. PKELTJDE TO PART FIRST. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie, Daily, with souls that cringe and... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 pages
...minister to Spain, 1877-1880; to England, 1880-1885. He died August 12, 1891.] PRELUDE TO PART FIRST. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie, Daily, with souls that cringe and... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1898 - 296 pages
...thinks these words extravagant read, for instance, aloud, the twenty opening lines of " Sir Launfal" : "Over his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...list, And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay." A loftier music still is often heard in the "Harvard Ode," eg: " Our slender life runs rippling by,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 120 pages
...seeing clearly what it is not. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL I The Vision of Sir Launfal PART FIRST PRELUDE Over his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...list, And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay : 5 Then, as the touch of his loved instrument Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1899 - 116 pages
...edition is complete in one volume. LOWELL'S POEMS. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. PRELUDE TO PART FIRST. i. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. II. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; 10 Daily, with souls that... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...minister to Spain, 1877-1880 ; to England, 1880-1885. He died August 12, 1891.] PRELUDE TO PART FIRST. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie, Daily, with souls that cringe and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...minister to Spain, 1877-1880 ; to England, 1880-1885. He died August 12, 1891.] PRELUDE TO PART FIRST. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie, Daily, with souls that cringe and... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1899 - 268 pages
...reach the end of the beauties in it. Each time we reread we see new beauties, we feel new thrills. Over his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flashes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. The first time you read this passage it may mean... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 166 pages
...Table, but also a period of time subsequent to the date of King Arthur's reign." PRELUDE TO PART FIRST OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 512 pages
...too, snatched my notes and forthwith disappeared. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. PRELUDE TO PAET FIBST. OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully...flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe... | |
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