 | William Dell - 2005 - 108 ページ
...his spontaneous and youthful joy still reflects the light. Finally, the adult remembers nothing. VI Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings...Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse cloth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 ページ
...6. In that brief but memorable coda to the Neoplatonic fifth stanza, a "homely" nurturing Earth does all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man,...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. (82-85) While she seems a benign consoler, viewed sub specie aeternitatis "homely" Earth plays a more... | |
 | Ingolf U. Dalferth, Hans-Peter Grosshans - 2006 - 438 ページ
...»Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own: Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And e'en with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy...he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came.«55 On such a metaphysical view human beings are, in their natural, unreflective state, >asleep<.... | |
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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories... 
