 BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human...  John Keats: A Literary Biography ... - Page 203by Albert Elmer Hancock - 1908 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...breath! vin. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - English poetry - 1880 - 202 pages
...wonderful parting thought of it. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art. Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, A STUDY. 175 The moving waters at thfir priest-like task Of pure ablution rounJ cariffs human shores,... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - Volunteers - 520 pages
...ceases ; it is like the tides, and may, in its constant efforts to remove impurities, be likened to ' The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores.' If hospital work is done in this spirit Sunday will not be less sacred, but each day will be equally... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...breath ! v1n. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...KEATS'S LAST SONNET. Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hnug the passions and scenes of that rapturons time When...all now forsaken, forgotten, foregone ! And I, a soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 pages
...the seas it looks down upon, lapping the coasts, are like priests washing the feet of pilgrims — " The moving waters at their priest-like task of pure ablution round earth's human shores." To Wolfe, in his " Ode on Sir John Moore's Burial," the moon struggles to send her light down to earth,... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...Soul-animating strains—alas, too few! [Keate's Last Sonnet.'] Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new sofi fallen mask, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, • Pillowed upon-my fair love's ripening... | |
 | John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...1819. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 pages
...soul. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Sonnets, English - 1882 - 378 pages
...Death is Life's high meed. RIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
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