 WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5111861Full view - About this book
 | Laura Emma Lockwood - 1916 - 136 pages
...green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). 48 WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1916 - 692 pages
...their roots are left in mine. hate, SONNETS THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION WITH stammering lips and insufficient I strive and struggle to deliver right That music...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground I This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1920 - 686 pages
...their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine. SONNETS THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...to deliver right That music of my nature, day and ni$ht With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves... | |
 | William Hume Blake - 1923 - 56 pages
...no ancestor but a speck of jelly? Goodness and beauty and truth are forever awakening overtones: — octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. Do not the chords gain enrichment from another world — an27 other world and yet... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 pages
...more again As a reed with the reeds in the river.1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 75 THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. 1 With the theme of this poem may be compared the simile of the elican in The May... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1993 - 136 pages
...to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine. THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground! This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 pages
...which would suggest the difficulty of voicing 'one's own tongue', from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'With stammering lips and insufficient sound / I strive...struggle to deliver right / That music of my nature' ('The Soul's Expression', 1844) to the anxieties suggested in George Eliot's 'Armgart', a verse drama... | |
 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 pages
...tradition?15 Elizabeth Barrett is explicitly cautious of sonnet epiphanies in "The Soul's Expression": With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground! This song of soul I struggle to outbear 15. For a discussion of Robert Browning... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 2003 - 130 pages
...the evening scene, That tells Creation where his steps have been! [POEMS 1844] THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and... | |
 | 1845 - 960 pages
...utmost extent. " I strive and einigele," she says, and says it with wonderful vigour and ability — With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...interwound ; And inly answering all the senses round M'ith octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which step out grandly to the infinite From tlio dai-k... | |
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