 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
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 408 pages
...author:— * Bright Star! would I were steadfast as tUou art—• Not in lone splendour hung aloft tho night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like...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,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 406 pages
...author :— ' Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft tho night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like...priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shorc^ Or gazing on the new soft f alien mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors :— * No—... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1897 - 410 pages
...artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like .Natiire's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their...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,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 410 pages
...word' of its author : — • Bright Star I would I were steadfast as then art— Not In lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their prlestliko task Of pnro ablation round earth's hnnmn shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask... | |
 | Elsey Lois Bristol - 1897 - 248 pages
...my lyre, And make its silvery splendor pant with "bliss. " (5) "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, 2 Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite." In discussing Shelley's descriptions of the stars we will... | |
 | John Keats - 1899 - 510 pages
...September or October, 1820. 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,... | |
 | John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - History - 1899 - 516 pages
...September or October, 1820. 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,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1899 - 1076 pages
...Crowther wrote as follows : " 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, yet unchangeable,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Education, Higher - 1899 - 28 pages
...best cleansers. We embark on the sea and watch the great tides of human life, of action and passion, 'The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores.' And yet we may claim a part in the greatest of these movements. Some have found an enlarging and purifying... | |
 | John Keats - 1900 - 500 pages
...is immense ! THE 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,... | |
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