 | Arthur L. Clements - 1990 - 340 páginas
...seventeenth-century poets may thus provide a valuable perspective. As one of these poets has written, Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move. Admittedly, forward steps may also lead to genuine progress in appreciating these poets, so, where... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...first I left my glorious train, From whence hY enlighten'd spirit sees That shady city of palm trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, 30 And when this dust falls to the um In that state I came, retum. THEY ARE ALL GONE INTO THE WORLD... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 páginas
...I left my glorious train, 25 From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, 30 But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...first I left my glorious train, From whence th' inlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees; But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to die urn In that state I came, return. COMPOSED AROUND 1648; PUBLISHED 1650. Most of Vaughan's poems... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 266 páginas
...homeless, the cloud of unknowing an impenetrable fog. "Oh how I long to travel back," Vaughan laments, "but (ah!) my soul with too much stay is drunk, and staggers in the way." Divine disorientation being common to human nature, drunkenness is an apt and oft-chosen metaphor for... | |
 | David Kennedy - 2012 - 250 páginas
...Vaughan an "age of mysteries, which he must live twice that would God's face see." But the poet, whose "soul with too much stay is drunk, and staggers in the way," searches in vain to feel again "through all this fleshly dress bright shoots of everlastingness," which... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 páginas
...that ancient track ! That I might once more reach that plaine, Where first I left my glorious traine. But (ah!) my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move. (21-24, 27-30) In this conservative view, the best service of the future is that it will eventually... | |
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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... 
