The Vision of Sir LaunfalTicknor and Fields, 1863 - Всего страниц: 33 Entire book printed and illustrated by hand. |
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alms arch armor Arthur's beams Behold bleak blossom boughs bread breeze BROOKS camels castle cheek Christmas Climbs climes cold crawl crouched crow crust crystal dark deep door Doth dumb dust eager earldom earth eyes faint fell flap flush Gate gilded mail gives gold grass gray green guess hall happy HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hath heart heaven hills Holy Grail idle JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL leaves leper light lightsome little bird morning murmur mused nearer neath never a leaf night North Countree O'er ounce outstretched palms poem poor PRELUDE rattled roof round sate scorn shed shelterless Shining shouted siege sight sings Sir Galahad Sir Launfal skies slender snow Sometimes song soul sprouted stars startled stood strives summer sunshine Supper swift tall thee there's thing Thou also hast thread Thrilling tree unscarred VISION OF Sir wall wanderer warm wind wine
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Стр. 18 - As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate, He was 'ware of a leper, crouched by the same, Who begged with his hand and moaned as he sate ; And a loathing over Sir Launfal came ; The sunshine went out of his soul with a thrill, The flesh 'neath his armor 'gan shrink and crawl...
Стр. 26 - Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf; Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one: No mortal builder's...
Стр. 13 - The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by; And if the breeze kept the good news back, For other couriers we should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing,— And hark!
Стр. 19 - Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty...
Стр. 13 - Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,— Tis the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
Стр. 27 - T was as if every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting shadow of earth and sky, Lest the happy model should be lost, Had been mimicked in fairy masonry By the elfin builders of the frost.
Стр. 33 - As Sir Launfal mused with a downcast face, A light shone round about the place ; The leper no longer crouched at his side, But stood before him glorified, Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate, — Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the temple of God in Man.
Стр. 30 - Sir Launfal's raiment thin and spare Was idle mail 'gainst the barbed air, For it was just at the Christmas time ; So he mused, as he sat, of a sunnier clime, And sought for a shelter from cold and snow In the light and warmth of long-ago ; He sees the snake-like caravan crawl O'er the edge of the desert, black and small, Then nearer and nearer, till, one by one, He can count the camels in the sun, As over the red-hot sands they pass To where, in its slender necklace of grass.