 And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth ; Death shall I shrink from, loving thee ? Into the breast that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall?  The Living Age - Page 4971892Full view - About this book
 | Edward Dowden - 1895 - 472 pages
...on a knowledge of the good purport of life : — " And 0, green bounteous earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...after all difficult for any sane person. There is n trial more cruel to the flesh and spirit than this. No poem of Mr Meredith's strikes deeper from... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I, and await the dark to be! And O, green bounteous earth Bacchante Mother! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth;...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall? She can lead us, only she, Unto God's footstool whither shereaches Loved, enjoyed, her gifts must be;... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 322 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I and await the dark to-be l And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall ? Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 258 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I and await the dark to-be ! And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall ? Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her steadfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live... | |
 | Richard Curle - 1908 - 330 pages
...one from Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn — And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...breast that gives the rose Shall I with shuddering fall ? That is the way that Meredith's philosophy looks on death. If there is one thing strongly repugnant... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - 1908 - 430 pages
...welcomed it — as the strong deliverer. It is the arch wherethrough gleams the untravelled world : Death shall I shrink from, loving thee ? Into the...breast that gives the rose Shall I with shuddering fall ? It is this unquestioning acceptance that fills the Meredithian world with such a sense of radiant... | |
 | George Meredith - 1909 - 292 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I and await the dark to-be ! And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall ? Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1910 - 414 pages
...proof of this, what more do you need than — a rose! And O, green bounteous Earth! Bacchante Mother! Stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth;...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall? A rose — or an automobile. Both would serve alike to Meredith as evidences of the divine energy,... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 296 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I and await the dark to-be ! And O, green bounteous Earth ! Bacchante Mother ! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall? Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 296 pages
...withered leaf. Fixed am I and await the dark to-be ! And O, green bounteous Earth! Bacchante Mother! stern to those Who live not in thy heart of mirth;...that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall? Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live... | |
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