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... idea made him feel himself a prisoner; he knew the burden of the woe that poets, and prophets, and great oracles of faith have set forth for us in su... ...ing of Maturin’s brain, was lost to mankind; and the various Orientalists, Mystics, and Archaeologists who take an interest in these matters were unab...

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..., we might sug- gest an explanation of an often-suggested mystery. Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowm... ...le, and that little in passing through the thoroughfare of life, where the mystic language of his books was necessarily mixed up with the babble of th... ...ver the senses of his auditress. It was the effect, unquestionably, of the mystic gesticulations by which he had sought to bring bodily before Phoebe’... ...d, to which the girl was constrained to yield her own.” I am somewhat of a mystic, it must be confessed. The ten- dency is in my blood, together with ... ...idual—except 190 The House of the Seven Gables Hepzibah, and some lawless mystic, like the daguerreotypist, and, possibly, a few political opponents—... ...en branch that gained AEneas and the Sibyl admittance into Hades. This one mystic branch hung down before the main en- trance of the Seven Gables, so ...

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...m Surgit amari aliquid. Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace: Small poets lov’d to sing her blooming face. Before her altars, lo! a numerous... ...f-confessing eye Darts the fond question or the soft reply. Or through the mystic ringlets of the vale We flash our faery feet in gamesome prank; ... ...r destin’d bier, As if from eldest time some Spirit meek Had gather’d in a mystic urn each tear That ever on a Patriot’s furrow’d cheek Fit channe... ...s orient beam! Wild, as the autumnal gust, the hand of Time Flies o’er his mystic lyre: in shadowy dance The alternate groups of Joy and Grief adva... ...8 - Pity Coleridge: Poems To the Nightingale 1795 Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their win... ...Was fluttering now, as quickly to depart; When twang’d an arrow from Love’s mystic string, With pathless wound it pierc’d him to the heart. Was the... ...Dim recollections; and thence soared to Hope. Strong to believe whate’er of mystic good The Eternal dooms for His immortal sons. From Hope and firm...

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...hat we are! Three Quatrains I As long as Fame’s imperious music rings Will poets mock it with crowned words august; And haggard men will clamber to ... ... to pick and spade, As one by one the phantoms go. But then, what though the mystic Three Around me ply their merry trade? — And Charon soon may carr... ...yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of... ... man’s havoc and affairs, And yet was not all hostile to their tumult, Where poets would have served and honored him, And saved him, had there been an... ...rse, and there be now, Disordered and reduced amazedly To resignation by the mystic seal Of young finality the gods had laid On everything that made h... ...; Yet one may see, — who sees her face, Her crown of silver and of lace, Her mystical serene address Of age alloyed with loveliness, — That she would ...

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...his pupil and helper, with characteristic tren- chancy, brushed aside this mysticism, and interpreted the discovery as ‘a geometrical method of dividi... ...ugh some half-built streets of two-storied houses’; he had Carlyle and the poets, engineering and math- ematics, to study by himself in such spare tim... ...s profound. His pious optimism increased and became touched with something mystic and filial. ‘The grave is not good, the approaches to it are ter- ri...

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... things; half-light in the rooms; surrounded by the works of her favourite poets, and all that sort of thing. I say to myself: I must just run in and ... ...e that of some strange wild faiths that get hold of mankind with the cruel mystic grip of unattainable perfection, robbing them of both liberty and fe... ...loom. And is it my fault that what I had to give was real flame, and not a mystic’s incense? It is neither your fault nor mine. And now whatever 211 ...

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...es, or to those very significant letters, L., S., D., I do not know. Those mystic letters are, however, most important, and no society can have office... ...l interest the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope t...

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...pulse of the moment, and those who consult an inner light in some entirely mystical manner. But neither of these I believe is the most abundant type i... ...fe, are supposed to be not only more advantageous to the child but in some mystical way 51 H G Wells more moral. The spectacle of an undersized porte... ...uration of the serf taint will vanish from the workman’s mind. The days of mystic indi- vidualism have passed, few people nowadays will agree to that ... ... outside their range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they re... ...nd more into elaborate formalities 125 H G Wells supposed to have in some mystical way “high educational value,” and for the most part conducted by m... ...control and will of man, they will speak of Shakespeare as being a sort of mystical consequence, of Roger Bacon or Newton as men independent of circum...

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..., of grand and mysterious poems; and the ingenious stories invented by the poets, which my mother told me in the evening, had none of the flavor, none... ...ouse, and they dis- cussed me there. I became a sort of Western prophet, a mystic charmer who was ready to nihilize the Latin races, the Saint Paul of...

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...which is imagined to have in- habited the island at one time; as among our poets the dream of the period of a circle of chivalry here is encouraged fo... ...ound her, for this was robbing Laetitia of some of her own little fortune, mystical though that might be. But a man like Sir Willoughby had claims on ... ...iddleton had won him by virtue of something native to her likewise, though mystically, touched Laetitia with a faint sense of relationship to the chos... ...father. I have no time to pay them in person. One!” He took the one—love’s mystical number—from which commonly spring multitudes; but, on the present ... ...nca- pable of…” “My love, I detest artifice. Poetry is a profession.” “Our poets would prove to you …” “As I have often observed, Clara, I am no poet.... ...d she had the love of wild flowers, the watchful happiness in the seasons; poets thrilled her, books absorbed. She dwelt strongly on that sincerity of... ...ending the similes. They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets. Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: ‘Graii... ...ptial to the webbed bottle. The reason must be, that he is full of the old poets. He has their spirit to sing with, and the best that Time has done on... .... “It is intense.” “Then is it a disease?” “It bears no explanation; it is mystic.” 436 The Egoist “It is a cultus, then, a form of self-worship.” “S...

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... thenceforth any hope. For it is most true that all available Authority is mystic in its con- ditions, and comes ‘by the grace of God.’ Cheerfuller th... ...ational Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Lo... ...mpart itself. How sweet, indispensable, in such cases, is fellowship; soul mystically strengthening soul! The meditative Germans, some think, have bee... ...ous seething and tumbling, steam half way to the Moon; O thou unfathomable mystic All, garment and dwellingplace of the unnamed; O spirit, lastly, of ... ...her. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues, ’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org... ...and the Guillotine; speak thou to me, O Mother, and sing my sick heart thy mystic everlasting lullaby-song, and let all the rest be far!— Another row ...

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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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...er to the Anthropophagous bo som, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove encircled shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us indivi... ... to him: nay perhaps he has an insight into their more recondite, and almost mystic qualities, what we might call the omnipotent virtue of Clothes, su... ... in our fellow man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Au thor, which is perhaps the fundamental element of hi... ...ery clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive r... ...Eyes look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou calle... ...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching...

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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...

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...of, something has to be found to repre- sent it. According to Froebel, the mystic symbolic value of certain objects and acts (largely mathematical) st... ...having 76 Democracy & Education to be content with vague and more or less mystic gener- alities about ultimate ideals and speculative spiritual sym- ... ...n- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats in such lang...

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...ressiveness of a fine quota- tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...t was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merg- ing them in her mystic religious joy. “You would like those, Dorothea,” said Celia, rather ... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “Y ou will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “W ell, tell me... ... made life interesting quite apart from the cultus of horseflesh and other mystic rites of costly observance, which the eight hundred pounds left him ... ...hese sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a rel... ...ight and making the struggle with darkness narrower.” “That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—” “Please not to call it by any name,” said Dorothea, put...

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...impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...ght was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy. “You Would like those, Dorothea,” said Celia, rather ... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “You will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “Well, tell me w... ...t made life interesting quite apart from the cultus of horseflesh and other mystic rites of costly observance, which the eight hundred pounds left him ... ...hese sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a rel... ...ight and making the struggle with darkness narrower.” “That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—” “Please not to call it by any name,” said Dorothea, put...

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...endix parison, that it suggests the remembrance of the fact—that the great poets have usually been themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It ... ...themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It has not made them great poets; but they would not be great poets without it. And when Eugenie Grand... ...at we see in Dante and Shakespeare, in Chaucer and Tennyson. But the great poets do not as a rule accumulate detail. Balzac does, and from this very a... ... Grand homme de province a Paris, 1re partie Lost Illusions:—I. The T wo Poets A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 1 Illusions Perdues:—II. ... ...the two previous centuries. As we read the extraordinary writ- ings of the mystics who studied the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swe... ...stianity (see the letter from Paris in “Louis Lambert,” in which the young mystic ex- plains, a propos to Swedenborg’s doctrines, how there has never ...

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...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente... ...and with the true Sphynx head, surrounded with beetles, lizards, and other mystic creatures (very chocolate-coloured). And beside her stood the Herr P...

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...t the same as heaven. That is not imagination. No, it kills it. When their poets over here try to celebrate big- ness they are dead at once, and natur... ... general assertion of the won- der of the world. “My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will be- lieve in it,” an... ...d—it is always that sloppy ‘somehow’ will be the outcome, and that in some mystical way the Mr. Basts of the future will benefit because the Mr. Brits... ...ible. The business man who assumes that this life is ev- erything, and the mystic who asserts that it is noth- ing, fail, on this side and on that, to... ...e great poet who shall voice her, or, better still for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. At the church the scene...

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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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...x, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!’ The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical ar- ticle, is not to be conceived. The first defi... ...airest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the ... ...er in the evolving of the vague idea of the philo- sophic, and find in the mystic parable that tells of the tree of knowledge, and of its forbidden fr... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...