 ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES MY spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep,...  Sonnets of this Century - Pagina 117geredigeerd door - 1886 - 333 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I mu^t die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...brain, Bring round the heart an indescribable feud ; That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main A sun, a... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the Drain, Bring round the heart an indescribable feud ; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles... | |
 | 1922 - 1124 pagina’s
...by John Keats, from his sonnet, ' On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time ' :— " Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy...keep. Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye." It seems rather puzzling. PA D'ABREU-ALBANO. [We have altered the punctuation sent by our correspondent... | |
 | John Keats - 1859 - 524 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old Time—with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. XXII. TO HAYDON. (WITH THE PKECEDIKG SONNET.)... | |
 | John Keats - 1863 - 496 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. XXII. TO HAYDON. (WITH THE PRECEDING BOSKET.) HAYDON ! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. The image of the "sick eagle" is beautiful in itself, and interesting in its application. (WlTH THE... | |
 | John Keats, James Russell Lowell, Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (baron).) - 1871 - 342 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...the rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main XXII. TO HAYDON. (WITH THE PRECEDING SONNET.) HAYDON! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively of... | |
 | John Keats - 1874 - 320 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. XIX. INCLOSING THE PRECEDING SONNET. HAYDON ! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively of these... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1876 - 372 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet, 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude." This struggle for utterance he sent to Haydon, with a sonnet addressed to him : " Haydon ! forgive... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 378 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. TO . . .1 IME'S sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, Long hours have to and fro let creep the... | |
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