Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they... The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem - Pagina 180di William Wordsworth - 1814 - 447 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Stuart Blackie - 1877 - 266 pagine
...they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed, With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard, Those were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities : or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's... | |
| smith elder - 1877 - 802 pagine
...summarily dismissed. In attributing the antique conception of Satyrs to an optical illusion produced by — withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age. . . . And sometimes intermixed with stirring boras Of the live deer, orgeat's depending beard, * This... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - 1878 - 278 pagine
...they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed, With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God." The genesis of mythological theology from the action of a reverential imagination on the forms and... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1879 - 826 pagine
...as they passed their wings, lacked not, for love, fair objects, whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goats depending beard, — These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities, or Pan... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pagine
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God. Wordsworth, Excursion. MYTHOLOGY. FOR fable is Love's world, his home, his birthplace ; Delightedly... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pagine
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God ! [THE MOON AMONG TREES.] Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pagine
...they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects, whom they wooed. With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god !" As this apt strain proceeded, I could mark Its kindly influence, o er the yielding brow Of our companion,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pagine
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God ! [THE MOON AMONG TREES.] Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pagine
...not, for love, fair objects whom they woo'd With gentle whisper. Wither'd boughs grotesque, Stripp'd of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth...vale, or on steep mountain side ; And, sometimes, intcrmix'd with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard, — These were the lurking... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pagine
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God ! [THE MOON AMONG TREES.] Within the soul a facu'ty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide... | |
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