Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What the still night suggesteth to the heart. Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth, Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea; Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I... Poems - Page 17by Stephen Phillips - 1897 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| College students' writings, American - 1902 - 524 pages
...shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What...birth, Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea," he touches chords that vibrate sympathetically in every human being. He gives definite expression to... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1898 - 932 pages
...shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned np the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What...worlds. It has been died for, though I know not when, It hag been sung of, thongh I know not where. It has the strangeness of the luring West, And of sad sea-horizons... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - Art - 1901 - 692 pages
...shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What...sea ; Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It lias been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where. It has the... | |
| William Archer - English poetry - 1902 - 664 pages
...and eloquence, though certainly more romantic than, classical in thought. Here is his peroration : Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth, Some spirit...died for, though I know not when, It has been sung for, though I know not where. It has the strangeness of the luring West, And of sad sea-horizons ;... | |
| Yoné Noguchi - Japan - 1902 - 298 pages
...continued : " I read in a modern poet the following lines : ' . . . . full of whispers and of shadows, Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What the still night suggesteth to the heart.' Such is the vague Japanese beauty in my idea." " I am not so nobly sweet, am I ? " I exclaimed. He... | |
| George Woodward Warder - Psychological fiction - 1903 - 190 pages
...enthusiasm : "Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What the still night suggesteth to the heart. Thou beauteous love shine like a candle clear In this dark country of the world." Raphael and Enola... | |
| Helena Swan - Quotations - 1904 - 630 pages
...the first burst of sunshine after rain. HARRIET E. HAMILTON KING, The Disciples : Ugo Bassi, Pt. II. Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been...when. It has been sung of, though I know not where. STEPHEN PHILLIPS, Marpessa, II. 145-7. The round little flower of a face that exults in the sunshine... | |
| Laurie Magnus - English literature - 1909 - 440 pages
...hours. . . . 5 Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What...heart. Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth, 10 Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea ; Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been... | |
| Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - English literature - 1914 - 514 pages
...shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What...heard ere birth, Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea.2 It is in poetic drama that Mr. Phillips has attained high rank among English writers. His first... | |
| Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - English literature - 1914 - 520 pages
...shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell ; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What the still night suggcsteth to the heart. Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth, Some spirit lute touched on a... | |
| |