The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold: the gates were at first the end of the world. Centuries of Meditations - Seite 153von Thomas Traherne - 2007 - 360 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Traherne - 1903 - 274 Seiten
...heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold ? Ill The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men... | |
| Edward Thomas - 1903 - 542 Seiten
...the tower ami spire of All Saints', the distance being closed by the tower of St. Martin at Carfax. everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The men... | |
| Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 376 Seiten
...and in which he sees everywhere the beauty which his "eye brings with it the power of seeing " : — "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. . . . Boys... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 412 Seiten
...exquisite prose in which he recounts the "•pure and virgin apprehension" of his childhood: — " The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men... | |
| 1906 - 796 Seiten
...star we so blindly inhabit as it first dazzled his innocent senses is too exquisite to be passed over: "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 894 Seiten
..."Centuries of Meditation": "The com was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor wax ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful things. . . . Boys... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 902 Seiten
...following passage on the child's vision of the world, from Traherne's "Centuries of Meditation": "Tbe corn was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor wag ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street... | |
| 1906 - 858 Seiten
...conception we have already noted in the poems is expressed with, to our mind, a far deeper beauty: — The corn was orient and immorta'l wheat which never should be reaped Dor was ever sown. l thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the... | |
| Katharine Lee Bates - 1907 - 450 Seiten
...star we so blindly inhabit as it first dazzled his innocent senses is too exquisite to be passed over: "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1907 - 354 Seiten
...should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold ? The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men... | |
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