 WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5111861Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...certain sonnet, " The Soul's Expression," in which the author of The Romaunt of the Page tells us — With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...night, With dream and thought and feeling interwound. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole, And utter... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - Immortality - 1888 - 396 pages
...yet smaller feathers, are calculated to have forty-two thousand million scales on a square inch. " With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right The music of this nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering... | |
 | Theodore Francis Wright - Ego (Psychology) - 1892 - 284 pages
...Jung-Stilling's " Theory of Pneumatology." Mrs. Browning put the same perception into poetic form, — " With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right The music of my nature, day and night, With dream and thought and feeling interwoven, And inly answering... | |
 | American poetry - 1893 - 472 pages
...would sound, " Daughter, I AM. Can I suffice for HEAVEN and not for earth ? " THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...Half-waking me at night, and said "Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?" THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION. With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1893 - 418 pages
...Angels shield them, Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest HIS have seen ! SONNETS. Soul'a Expression. WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, clay and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round... | |
 | William Ordway Partridge - Art - 1894 - 216 pages
...great men always. Mrs. Browning has put the thought in a most definitive way in her sonnet : — " With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right The music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literature, Modern - 1896 - 328 pages
...an indication of the mode in which she approached the sonnet-form, that it may here be quoted : — With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive...out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground ! This song of soul I struggle to out bear Through portals of the sense, sublime... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...soul, Which does the human animal control, Inform each part, and agitate the whole ? SIR R. BLACKMORE. With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right The music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English poetry - 1899 - 196 pages
...is the meaning of her poem. " The Soul's Expression," as she clearly tells us of her aims in verse : With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive...With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And only answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height, Which step out grandly... | |
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