The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Darley to HeaneyJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 476 pages |
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... fire and could spring to her , Fire , or the strength of the streams that spring ! For the stars and the winds are unto her As raiment , as songs of the harp - player ; For the risen stars and the fallen cling to her , And the southwest ...
... fire and could spring to her , Fire , or the strength of the streams that spring ! For the stars and the winds are unto her As raiment , as songs of the harp - player ; For the risen stars and the fallen cling to her , And the southwest ...
Page 289
John Wain. III O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall , Come from the holy fire , perne in a gyre , And be the singing - masters of my soul . Consume my heart away ; sick with desire And fastened to a dying ...
John Wain. III O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall , Come from the holy fire , perne in a gyre , And be the singing - masters of my soul . Consume my heart away ; sick with desire And fastened to a dying ...
Page 348
... fire by fire .. Who then devised the torment ? Love . Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove . We only live , only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire ...
... fire by fire .. Who then devised the torment ? Love . Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove . We only live , only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire ...
Contents
GEORGE DARLEY 17951846 | 1 |
The Wife ALost | 31 |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 18031849 | 40 |
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