Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…
Alas ! the gloomy land of night, The fiery pit of baleful light ; Great clouds of smoke to heaven ascending, The melted mountains downward tending: Jehovah !— I am seized with fe
AR away from the usual route of tourists, amid vineyards, rich meadows, and low sunny hills, and skirted by a broad sleepy river, stands the old town of Rheims in Champagne. So far away that few travellers
THE MAGIC CASEMENT A BOOK OF FAERY POEMS GIVING GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE CASEMENT: SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED NOYES
A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS VOU are a tulip seen to-day, •*• But, dearest, of so short a stay That where you grew scarce men can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower Will force you hence, and in an hour.
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