Death--and AfterwardsNew Amsterdam Book Company, 1901 - 65 páginas |
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Death - and Afterwards: Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review" of August ... Sir Edwin Arnold Visualização completa - 1887 |
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AMSTERDAM BOOK angels answer argument astronomers beauty Beginning are dreams believe birth bodily senses body breath cellular coming conceivable conception conscious cosmic countless dead death Death-and Afterwards delicate developed discern Divine dog-fish dogma doubt earth earthly End and Beginning endless eternal ethereal evolution existence exquisite faculties fear feel find themselves misled float fresh future gentle glad heart heavenly higher hope human idea ignorance illusion of disbelief imagined immortality individual Instincts intelligence invisible less light live lowest magic materialists matter and motion medusa mental metaphysic mind moral presumption mother Nature nature of things nerve ness nettles never observation organs perceptions perpetual physical science plainest facts poet praise present probably realize reason rebuke revelation says sceptical seems solar solar system solid space speak speech and thought sphere spirit stars subtler supernatural surely tain thee things thou tion truth universe vast whisper wonder
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Página 64 - From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night. The night in silence under many a star, The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know, And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
Página 60 - Ah, Love ! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits — and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire...
Página 63 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Página 37 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?
Página 3 - Never the spirit was born ; the spirit shall cease to be never ; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams ! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever ; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems...
Página 63 - Prais'd be the fathomless universe. For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Página 58 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Página 63 - For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love — But praise! O praise and praise, For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death. Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee — I glorify thee above all; I bring thee a song that, when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Página 64 - Dark mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach, strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving, floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O death. From me to thee, glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and f...
Página 64 - O vast and well-veil'd death, And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.