 | Conrad Aiken - 1922 - 378 pagine
...passing of her dreaming feet Over the seas, to silent Palestine, Dominion of the blood and sepulchre. II She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries : " The tomb in Palestine 307 Is not the porch of spirits lingering; It is the grave of Jesus, where He lay." We live in an old... | |
 | Conrad Aiken - 1927 - 394 pagine
...passing of her dreaming feet Over the seas, to silent Palestine, Dominion of the blood and sepulchre. II She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice...lingering; It is the grave of Jesus, where He lay." 189 We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored,... | |
 | Lucy Beckett - 1974 - 236 pagine
...in a figure that Stevens had rejected for himself long ago when the woman in 'Sunday Morning' heard A voice that cries, 'The tomb in Palestine Is not...lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.' The suggestion is strengthened by a remarkable passage in 'Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of... | |
 | Richard Gray - 1976 - 292 pagine
...morn. And whence they came and whither they shall go The dew upon their feet shall manifest. 15 VIII She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice...where he lay.' We live in an old chaos of the sun, 5 Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. (1. 88—90) 61 e Letters 39 (1. 106—109) 62 At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - 1992 - 280 pagine
...we like, Or as small as we like, or both great and small. THE SUBJECT OF CONTEXT / 23 And Stevens: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency...day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored free. . . . ("Sunday Morning") In these instances "or" not only does not require but positively precludes... | |
 | Bobby Joe Leggett, Bobby L. Leggett - 1992 - 300 pagine
...been converted to his point of view. She hears a voice saying that her god, Christ, is dead. His tomb "Is not the porch of spirits lingering. / It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." The place in the poem of this long-delayed announcement of the death of God can best be seen, I think,... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pagine
...trees, the lakes. In the last stanza, the woman does not speak in her own voice, but she hears a voice: She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice...lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." Stevens's answer to this message is that our only life is the life we know, the planet on which we... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1996 - 232 pagine
...sun's day, the source of light and life. His faith was the faith of men who are mortal and perish: "We live in an old chaos of the sun, / Or old dependency...and night, / Or island solitude, unsponsored, free." Divinity, he said, must live within oneself, in an awareness of the changing seasons, "passions of... | |
 | Thomas F. Lombardi - 1996 - 310 pagine
...matured. "Sunday Morning," the apex of Harmonium'?, genius, denies Christianity's promise of immortality: "'The tomb in Palestine / Is not the porch of spirits...lingering. / It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay' " (CP, 70). Henry Weinfield, I think, has touched the heart of the matter, writing: "The irony of the... | |
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She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, "The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. 
