 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 páginas
...first I left my glorious train ; From whence th' enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps will move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 páginas
...first I left my glorious train ; From whence th'enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps will move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 páginas
...once more reach that plain ' Where first I left my glorious train, Prom whence the enlightened spirit That shady city of palm-trees. But ah! my soul with...staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, Hut I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...might once more reach that plain, Where first I left uiy glorious train ; From whence the enlightened all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. ' iu the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; Aud, when this dust... | |
 | Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 páginas
...illustrating. When Henry Vaughan, lamenting the advent of old age, and longing to be young again, says, " My soul with too much stay is drunk and staggers in the way," it would seem to be the physical phenomena of drunkenness — reeling about, loss of vision, &c. —... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 páginas
...might once more reach that plain, Where first I left my glorious train ; From whence th' enlighten'd spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees. But ah...in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I my backward steps will move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...That shady City of Palm-trees. But ah! my sonl with too much stay Is drunk, and »taggers in the wny! amid his lost lu that state I came, return. THE RAINBOW. Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 páginas
...first I left my glorious train ; From whence th' enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way l Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps will move ; And when this dust falls to the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 páginas
...more reach that pl&in, Where first I left my glorious tr.iin : From whence th' enlightened spirit : That shady city of palm-trees. But ah ! my soul with too much Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! 288 TO AD 1655.] L>89 Some men a forward motion love, But 1 by... | |
 | 1884 - 662 páginas
...I left my glorious traine ; From whence the Inlightened spirit sees That shady City of Palm trees. But ah! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers...backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls in the urn, In that state I came return." Here is a wonderful anticipation of the main conception of... | |
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O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient track ! That I might once more reach that plain, Where first I left my glorious train; From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay... 
