The Three Heron's FeathersPoet-lore Company, 1900 - 234 pages |
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Alvan ANNA GOLDHAIR arms Art thou beauty believe Beowulf Browning Burial-wife Chancellor character child Clotilde Cölestin comes dead death deed didst door Dost thou dream Duke Duke of Gotland earth Emerson evil eyes fate father feel Ferishtah Ferishtah's Fancies genius George Meredith give goes grave Hamlet hand Hans Lorbass happiness hast thou heart heaven human interview Jephthah King laugh light look Lorbass lord Louise Chandler Moulton Maitreya master Meredith Miklas mind naught never night noble Number once Ophelia Ottar path philosophy play poem poet Poet-lore poet's Polonius Prince Marko PRINCE WITTE Queen says shadow Shadowtown Shakespeare silent sing Sköll smiling song soul speak spirit stands sword tell thee thine thou art thou canst thou hast Thou knowest thought throne thyself to-day Tragic Comedians verse Vishnu Purana wait woman women words wouldst Young Prince
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Page 242 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 319 - Sure tho* seldom, are denied us, when the spirit's true endowments Stand out plainly from its false ones, and apprise it if pursuing Or the right way or the wrong way, to its triumph or undoing.
Page 288 - I am made up of an intensest life, Of a most clear idea of consciousness Of self, distinct from all its qualities, From all affections, passions, feelings, powers...
Page 263 - Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. POLONIUS. That's very true, my lord. HAMLET. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — Have you a daughter? POLONIUS. I have, my lord. HAMLET. Let her not walk i
Page 245 - I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice and, daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for heaven. I take the hap Of all my deeds. The wind that fills my sails, Propels ; but I am helmsman.
Page 280 - They called me theirs, Who so controlled me; Yet every one Wished to stay, and is gone, How am I theirs, If they cannot hold me, But I hold them?
Page 252 - ... one of the lividly ludicrous, whom we cannot laugh at, but must contemplate, to distinguish where their character strikes the note of discord with life; for otherwise, in the reflection of their history, life will seem a thing demoniacally inclined by fits to antic and dive into gulfs.
Page 245 - Tis morning: but no morning can restore What we have forfeited. I see no sin: The wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Page 267 - Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it?
Page 276 - Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king : Keep the obsequy so strict.