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...ct Sound and entire, mark well the lore conceal’d Under close texture of the mystic strain! And now there came o’er the perturbed waves The Divin... ...e feet, and the huge belly fledge with wings These sit and wail on the drear mystic wood. The kind instructor in these words began: “Ere farther ... ... Che non sia al fin sempre amato chi ama. Indeed many of the Italian poets have repeated this verse. v. 105. Caina.] The place to which murde... ...her it has been remarked, that the crime of usury is branded by both these poets as offensive to God and Nature: or that the sin for which Brunetto... ...nte is himself enumerated, by the historian of Italian literature, among the poets of his time. Tiraboschi, Storia della Lett. Ital. t. v. 1. iii. c.... ...nry II. of England. Bertrand holds a distinguished place among the Provencal poets. He is quoted in Dante, “De Vulg. Eloq.” l. ii. c. 2. For the trans... ...entioned by Archbishop Turpin. He is a common instance of treachery with the poets of the middle ages. Trop son fol e mal pensant, Pi... ...g, of that heav’nly shower. Him, who lives ever, and for ever reigns In mystic union of the Three in One, Unbounded, bounding all, each spirit th... ...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...

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...mitation thrice removed from the truth, and Homer, as well as the dramatic poets, having been con demned as an imitator, is sent into banishment alon... ...which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the ‘threshold of old age’— Is life harder towards the end, or w... ...r proper to him—that is to say, evil. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he r... ...way of speaking about justice and injustice, which is not confined to the poets, but is found in prose writers. The universal voice of mankind is al... ...d incantations binding heaven, as they say, to execute their will. And the poets are the authorities to whom they appeal, now smoothing the path of v... ...e smoke be neath the earth. And,— As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of the has dropped out of the string ...

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...hall lose it of myself, I fancy. Some drivelling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s a feature of th... ...he wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would no... ...h is hidden from us, but to make up for that we have been given a precious mystic sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heave... ...t is not given to many but only to the elect. (i) Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystic Reflection. Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is hell?” I ma...

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...Poe in Five V olumes the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. TO HELEN Helen, t... ...t of a geometrical diagram. For this reason Mr. Poe has no sympa- thy with Mysticism. The Mystic dwells in the mystery, is envel- oped with it; it col... ...he sun! Well and strenuously sung! The populace are hailing him ‘Prince of Poets,’ as well as ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Mos... ...-footed patriots seems to be for eating up the cameleopard. ‘The Prince of Poets,’ therefore, is upon his hinder legs, running for his life. His court... ...thou art Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus the Illustrious! — also ‘Prince of Poets,’ ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Most Remarkabl...

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...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ... the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking... ...e more forcibly impressed with it, as he gave it, because, in the under or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the firs...

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...ng of Jesus, here in repose, I realize the Savior lacks an aura of gentle mysticism, the aura of my Jesus at the supper table. The globe He holds in ... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... ...guided lives are powerful guideposts. In the wilderness I found something mystic, something out of self for self. It taught me to be legally self. ... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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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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...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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...must be permitted to call queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hy... ...ough and through with a Paixhan bomb, or knocked him in the head with the “Poets and Poetry of America,” he could hardly have been more discomfited th... ...Bon-Bon did begin at length to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and appeared deeply tinctured with the diablerie of his favorite... ...blest—and, speaking of Fancy—one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His “Fair Ines” had always for me an inexpressible ... ... cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets, not because the impressions he produces are at all times the most pr... ...ed that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing ... ...e. 1845. THE SLEEPER At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, ... ...ry fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title-page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so man... ...d shouting with a thousand rills. I spoke to her of power and pride, But mystically—in such guise That she might deem it nought beside The moment’...

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... matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexa- tion, hindranc... ...ve expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works,... ... fixt in thir Orb that flies, And yee five other wandring Fires that move In mystic Dance not without Song, resound His praise, who out of Darkness ca... ...y, as other solem dayes, they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in al... ...f reviv’d ADONIS, or renownd ALCINOUS, host of old LAERTES Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire EGYPTIAN Spo...

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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 ...

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...ceremony , the empire became divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu. With an Introduction... ...n of its utility would be invaluable. Whoever will observe how many of our poets have been men of private means will realize how much poetic capacity ...