 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...Wiml my thread of life up higher, Up through angels' hands of fire ! — I aspire while I expire ! A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. W'HAT was he doing, the great...goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-rly on the river? He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep, cool bed of the river,... | |
 | Robert Carr Bosanquet - 1890 - 210 pages
...unmistakeable warning against the vice which he illustrates. AT THE SHRINE OF THE SACRED MONKEY. 1 What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river ? " EB BROWNING. "TT'S infernally warm," grumbled the Vice, from -L underneath a straw hat at least... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...olden — And I bowed and said, "All power is of God, of God alone." — C. D Gardette. POEMS OF FAKCY. A Musical Instrument. WHAT was he doing, the great...goat And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon fly on the river ? He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep, cool bed of the river,... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1911 - 996 pages
...little smashing. There is an allegory in this — as Hawthorne used to write in his diary. What is he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river ? The fences at the ends of the platforms are pieces of wood belonging to the game of INN AND THE SHOPPING... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 810 pages
...breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WHAT was he doing, the great...lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river. He tore ont a reed,jthe great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river : The limpid water turbidly ran,... | |
 | Margaret Sullivan Mooney - 1895 - 350 pages
...called the Pandean Pipes. A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. MRS. BKOWHING. I. What was he doing, the great god Pan, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat And breaking...golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river? 11. He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river. The limpid water turbidly... | |
 | 1895 - 656 pages
...reveal the absolute relations of Nature to the human spirit, as they had never before been revealed. " What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river ? " What do the reeds represent but musical (or poetical) capability ? These reeds grow in a great... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 340 pages
...digressive moralist, but when we turn to the other, " A Musical Instrument," what a relief we experience. " What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river ? " The splendid shock of the rhythm, like the solid plunge of a cataract into a mountain-pool, captivates,... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 336 pages
...digressive moralist But when we turn to the other, " A Musical Instrument," what a relief we experience. " What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river ? " The splendid shock of the rhythm, like the solid plunge of a cataract into a mountain-pool, captivates,... | |
 | 1897 - 334 pages
...found again in the heart of a friend. Jn praise 0f music 249 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1809-1861 A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WHAT was he doing, the great...hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat _ With the dragon-fly on the river. I" He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed... | |
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He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river : The limpid water turbidly ran, And the broken lilies a-dying lay, And the dragon-fly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river. III. High on the shore sat the great god... 
