A Drama of Exile: And Other Poems, Volume 1H.G. Langley, 1845 |
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... clouds , from the depth of which revolves the sword of fire self - moved . A watch of innumerable angels , rank above rank , slopes up from around it to the zenith ; and the glare , cast from their brightness and from the sword ...
... clouds , from the depth of which revolves the sword of fire self - moved . A watch of innumerable angels , rank above rank , slopes up from around it to the zenith ; and the glare , cast from their brightness and from the sword ...
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... cloud of sunset . Do I dream ? Alas , not so ! this is the Eden lost By Lucifer the serpent ! this the sword ( This sword , alive with justice and with fire ! ) That smote upon the forehead , Lucifer The angel ! Wherefore , angel , go ...
... cloud of sunset . Do I dream ? Alas , not so ! this is the Eden lost By Lucifer the serpent ! this the sword ( This sword , alive with justice and with fire ! ) That smote upon the forehead , Lucifer The angel ! Wherefore , angel , go ...
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... cloud Which seals the gate up to the final doom , Is God's seal in a cloud . There seem to lie A hundred thunders in it , dark and dead ; The unmolten lightnings vein it motionless ; And , outward from its depth , the self - moved sword ...
... cloud Which seals the gate up to the final doom , Is God's seal in a cloud . There seem to lie A hundred thunders in it , dark and dead ; The unmolten lightnings vein it motionless ; And , outward from its depth , the self - moved sword ...
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... rare ! Ye saw us in our solemn treading , Treading down the steps of cloud ; While our wings outspreading Double calms of whiteness , Dropped superfluous brightness Down from stair to stair . Second A DRAMA OF EXILE . 43.
... rare ! Ye saw us in our solemn treading , Treading down the steps of cloud ; While our wings outspreading Double calms of whiteness , Dropped superfluous brightness Down from stair to stair . Second A DRAMA OF EXILE . 43.
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... clouds flashed out in throngs Of sudden angel - faces , face by face , All hushed and solemn , as a thought of God Held them suspended , -was I not , that hour , The lady of the world , princess of life , Mistress of feast and favour ...
... clouds flashed out in throngs Of sudden angel - faces , face by face , All hushed and solemn , as a thought of God Held them suspended , -was I not , that hour , The lady of the world , princess of life , Mistress of feast and favour ...
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Adam ADAM and EVE æther beauty behold beloved beneath breath bride brow brown rosarie calm chant Christ cloud crown curse dark dead death Dost thou DRAMA OF EXILE dream dreamlight Earth Spirits Eden's evermore Evil Spirit exile eyes fair feet final doom Gabriel gaze GEORGE SAND glory God's grace grief hand hath hear heart Heaven heavenly Heosphoros holy hope Infant voices passing kiss lady lady Eve light lips live look Lucifer morning morning star mother night noble o'er Onora in sleep pale passion phantasm pity plucked poem poet Poet voices pray prayer pure roar Rock us softly round scorn Second Spirit Second Voice semichorus seraph shadow shine silence singing slow smile song soul spake speak stand stars strong sweet sweetest sword sword-glare tears thine things thou hast thought thunder tread trees tremble unto wail ween weep wings woman word zodiac
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Page 220 - What flowers grow in my field wherewith to dress thee ? My good reverts to ill ; My calmnesses would move thee, My softnesses would prick thee, My bindings up would break thee, My crownings, curse and kill. Alas, I can but love thee ! May GOD bless thee my beloved, — may GOD bless thee.
Page 141 - I TELL you, hopeless grief is passionless— That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man ! express Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death,— Most like a monumental statue set In everlasting watch and moveless woe, Till itself crumble to the dust...
Page 109 - Some coldness from the guarded, some mistrust From those thou hast too well served, from those beloved Too loyally some treason; feebleness Within thy heart, and cruelty without, And pressures of an alien tyranny With its dynastic reasons of larger bones And stronger sinews.
Page 139 - HAvE been in the meadows all the day, And gathered there the nosegay that you see, Singing within myself as bird or bee, When such do field-work on a morn of May. But, now I look upon my flowers, decay Has met them in my hands more fatally Because more warmly clasped; and sobs are free To come instead of songs. What do you say, Sweet counsellors, dear friends ? that I should go Back straightway to the fields and gather more ? Another, sooth, may do it; but not I ! My heart is very tired, my strength...
Page 83 - In spasms of awful sunshine, at that hour A lion couched, — part raised upon his paws, With his calm, massive face turned full on thine, And his mane listening. When the ended curse Left silence in the world, — right suddenly He sprang up rampant, and stood straight and stiff, As if the new reality of death Were dashed against his eyes,- — and roared so fierce, (Such thick carnivorous passion in his...
Page 143 - ... and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at Thy feet — And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop like amber, while I go In reach of Thy divinest voice complete In humanest affection — thus, in sooth, To lose the sense of losing ! As a child, Whose song-bird seeks the wood for evermore, Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth ; Till, sinking on her breast,...
Page 244 - If we trod the deeps of ocean, if we struck the stars in rising, If we wrapped the globe intensely with one hot electric breath, 'Twere but power within our tether — no new spirit-power comprising — And in life we were not greater men, nor bolder men in death...
Page 239 - Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
Page 143 - SPEAK low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet — And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop like amber, while I go In reach of thy divinest voice...
Page 116 - Shall open on a hinge of harmony, And let you through to mercy. Ye shall fall No more, within that Eden, nor pass out Any more from it. In which hope, move on, First sinners and first mourners. Live and love, — Doing both nobly, because lowlily ; Live and work, strongly, — because patiently ! And, for the deed of death, trust it to God, That it be well done, unrepented of, And not to loss. And thence, with constant prayers Fasten your souls so high, that constantly The smile of your heroic cheer...