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...di- tating upon the wonder of her existence, like a be- liever lost in the mystic contemplation of his faith. It must not be supposed that all these v... ...eeling a special intensity of existence, that ela- tion common to artists, poets, and lovers—to men haunted by a great passion, a noble thought, or a ... ... fact and event of that evening stood out in his memory as if endowed with mystic significance. If he did not mention to me the colour of the pony whi...

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...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ...ious sensation of flight in their veins. Renee stole toward Nevil. She was mystically shaken and at his mercy; and had he said then, ‘Over to the othe... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ... ...o be a champion with a very large following. He is too much of a political mystic, I think.’ ‘Many young men are, before they have written out a fair ... ...s- ing lieutenant. ‘Then you’re nowhere,’ the honest fellow replied in the mystic tongue of prophecy. Palmet and Beauchamp went to their fish and meat... ... something of the kind of genius in her mood which has hurried the greater poets of sound and speech to impose their naturalness upon accepted laws, o... ...rd of, where working men met weekly for the purpose of reading the British poets. ‘That’s the best thing I’ve heard of late,’ he said, shaking Lydiard...

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...ween it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus a... ...w? He lives three thousand years deep into time, an age not yet described by poets. Can you well go further back in history than this? Ay! ay! — for t... ...ds, and convinced me that the Indian was not the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the ... ...is which chiefly has in spired, and will continue to inspire, the strains of poets, such as compose the mass of any literature. Our woods are sylvan, ... ...eting warrants on them. Before he has learned his a b c in the beautiful but mystic lore of the wilderness which Spenser and Dante had just begun to r...

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...ce of the bridal bed. His torch’s pale flame serves to gild The scene with mystic sacred glow; The room with incense-clouds is fil’d, That ye may perf... ...o and look around! Are they hither wending? Then to make our joy complete, Poets I invited, Who love other’s songs far more Than what they’ve indited.... ...with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great poets, to which many of their finest works are owing.] ONCE a stranger yout... ...d! Ay, my voice shall now be heard, As a peal of thunder, strong! Words as poets’ arms were made,— When the god will he obey’d, Follow fast his darts ... ...ion Held the strong desire I felt to wake her Firmer and firmer down, with mystic fetters. “Oh, thou love,” methought, “I see that slumber, Slumber th... ...voices gave thee, Age can never steal upon thee. Wise and gentle friend of poets, Born a creature fleshless, bloodless, 257 Goethe Though Earth’s dau... ...-fraught emotion, As though from death a living fount were springing. What mystic joy I felt! What rapt devotion! That form, how pregnant with a godli... ...None resembleth another, yet all their forms have a likeness; Therefore, a mystical law is by the chorus proclaim’d; Yes, a sacred enigma! Oh, dearest... ...ered speaks louder and louder to thee; But if thou here canst decipher the mystic words of the goddess, Everywhere will they be seen, e’en though the ...

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................37 The Sleeper in the Valley...................38 Evening Prayer.......................39 My Little Lovers .......................40 Poets at Seven Years.....................42 The Stolen Heart .......................45 The Parisian Orgy, or Paris Repeopled ..............46 Jeanne-Marie’s Hands.....................49 The Sisters of Charity ...............

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course of his l...

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...trice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Ma...

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...h came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole ?cycle? of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell between Hector?s funeral and the taking of Troy is told in detail, and well told, in a poem about half as long as the Iliad....

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...d the whole “cycle” of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell be... ... ring of his music, and he perhaps had before him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars had paled before the sun. We have practically no extern... ...more than an amplification or remodel ling of the works of these two Cyclic Poets.” This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains... ... This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains of these poets consist of fragments amounting to no more than a very few lines fro... ...stify us in the conclusion that, even if Quintus had the works of the Cyclic poets before him, which is far from certain, his poem was no mere remod ... ...mbered, indistinguishably blent. These no Immortal seeth; they are veiled In mystic cloud folds. Only Fate puts forth Her hands thereto, nor looks at...

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...ie or damned souls knocking themselves to pieces in the stuffy darkness of mystical contra- dictions. They are human beings, fit to live, fit to suffe... ...y poetry. Meantime, unblushing, unseen, and often unheard, the guile- less poets have gone on singing in a sweet strain. How they dare do the impossib... ...in wrote The Loves of the Plants and a scoffer The Loves of the Triangles, poets have been sup- posed to be indecorously blind to the progress of scie... ...ld Man of the Sea, still faces us with its old stupidity, with its strange mystical arrogance, stamping its shadowy feet upon the gravestone of autocr... ...one into the blood, tainting every mental activity in its source by a half-mystical, insensate, fascinating assertion of purity and holiness. The Gove... ... at one time went about (mostly in newspapers) preaching the gospel of the mystic sanctity of its sac- rifices, and the regenerating power of spilt bl... ... was ex- pected to make friends suddenly and kiss it on both cheeks in the mystic Russian fashion. It was a singu- larly nightmarish combination of in...

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...ee. And, lest new fears disturb thy happy state, Know, I have search’d the mystic rolls of Fate: Thy son (nor is th’ appointed season far) In Italy sh... ... upbraid The madness of the visionary maid, And with loud curses leave the mystic shade. “‘Think it not loss of time a while to stay, Tho’ thy compani... ...rule the regions of the night, Y e gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state! Obscure they went thro’ dreary shades,... ... were prodigal of blood: Priests of unblemish’d lives here make abode, And poets worthy their inspiring god; And searching wits, of more mechanic part...

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...d appear at the coffee-house; when low in funds, the deuce knows into what mystic caves and dens he slunk for food and lodging. He was perfectly ready... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...

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... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ...llins, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and many other poets. His native faculty, indeed, seems rather fine than powerful—rather t... ...less wealth, the native inheritance of his own genius. The highest rank of poets descend on their sublime sub- jects, like Uriel, descending alongst h... ... Tibbald, 280 or Ozell. 281 The goddess then o’er his anointed head, With mystic words, the sacred opium shed. And, lo! her bird (a monster of a fowl... ...traordinary man. His ‘Serious Call’ made Dr Johnson reli- gious. He became mystical in his views. 345 ‘Morgan:’ a writer against religion. 346 ‘Mand...