 He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the human lot; How warm the tints of Life; how hot Are Love and Hate; And what makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great.  The Quarterly Review - Page 34edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | 1903 - 606 pages
...whose fields he tilled, And thine alone, Was he whose fiery heart lies stilled 'Neath yonder stone. He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great. For, 'mid an age of dust and dearth, Once more had bloomed immortal worth, There, in the strong splenetic... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1898 - 248 pages
...searching criticism of the great peasant-poet. I quote a stanza here and there by way of illustration : He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great. He saw what all men see — no more — In heaven and earth : But as, when thunder crashes nigh, All... | |
 | William Watson - 1895 - 108 pages
...whose fields he tilled, And thine alone, Was he whose fiery heart lies stilled 'Neath yonder stone. He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...hear The crackling of their phantom bays Sapless and sear ! For, 'mid an age of dust and dearth, Once more had bloomed immortal worth. There, in the strong,... | |
 | 1896 - 758 pages
...only words of praise : A mighty gift of hatred gave— A gift above All other gifts benefic, save " He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...makes truth divine, and what Makes manhood great. ****** The gift of love. He saw 'tis meet that man possess The will to curse as well as bless, To pity—and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 428 pages
...perhaps, but not so well. There is a diviner economy in these things than we have come to allow." " He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...makes Truth divine, and what Makes manhood great." W. WATSON. " I stand where I am set apart to minister to men in sacred things; but I feel as though... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1896 - 802 pages
...as follows : " He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the human lot ; How warm the tents of Life, how hot Are Love and Hate ; And what makes Truth divine, and what Makes Manhood great." Here is another stanza — one of the best : " A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pages
...: " He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the human lot ; How warm the tents of Lofe, how hot Are Love and Hate ; And what makes Truth divine, and what Hakes Manhood great." Here is another stanza — one of the best : " A dreamer of the common dreams,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 pages
...David, though a sinner, he was a preacher, and not merely a literary artist." — E. CHARI.TON BLACK. " He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...makes Truth divine, and what Makes manhood great." WILLIAM WATSON. 9. 17-24. But a true Poet, etc. Cf. Emerson, The Poet (Essays, Second Series). " Olympian... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 pages
...though a sinner, he was a preacher, and not merely a literary artist." — E. CHARLTON BLACK. • " Me came when poets had forgot How rich and strange the...makes Truth divine, and what Makes manhood great." WILLIAM WATSON. 9. 17-24. But a true Poet, etc. Cf. Emerson, The Poet (Essays, Second Series). " Olympian... | |
 | William Watson - 1899 - 342 pages
...whose fields he tilled, And thine alone, Was he whose fiery heart lies stilled 'Neath yonder stone. 233 He came when poets had forgot How rich and strange...troop, in pale amaze They melted 'neath that living gaze,His in whose spirit's gusty blaze We seem to hear The crackling of their phantom bays Sapless... | |
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