The Art of Optimism as Taught by Robert BrowningT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1900 - 35 ページ |
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active voice art of optimism art of pessimism boat all hole boundless deep Turns breast Browning Browning's Epilogue conquering power dark grave death dowry draught of dew dreamed drunk my last earth fact faith fell one day fight finite folded hands forevermore friends give happy hate human experi husband indicative mood jackals last dew last sweet draught live lovers material of pessimism mill-stream it fell miserable never once OPTIMISM AS TAUGHT optimist passive voice peasant-poet pessimism and optimism pessimist place and perform poem Pompilia ready-made roar ROBERT BROWNING robust optimism rules for pessimism satisfied serene shroud side soldier asked soldier spake soul soul's strength sound spindle of hazelwood spring sure take its place TAUGHT BY ROBERT Tennyson three parts pain tion triumph truth Turns again home unfitness UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN victorious optimism wait water has brought words worst wrong Yesterday's flowers
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11 ページ - DOVER BEACH THE sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
15 ページ - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
15 ページ - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
5 ページ - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
12 ページ - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 11.
30 ページ - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity confirms the conception of an hour.
22 ページ - For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god Amid his worlds, I will dare to say.
29 ページ - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
28 ページ - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
34 ページ - AT the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where — by death, fools think, imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken! What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being — who? 10 One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,...