 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.  To-day - Pàgina 611922Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Traherne - 1903 - 274 pàgines
...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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1903 - 542 pàgines
...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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 376 pàgines
...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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 412 pàgines
...exquisite prose in which he recounts the "•pure and virgin apprehension" of his childhood: — " The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
 | 1906 - 796 pàgines
...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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me; their sweetness... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 894 pàgines
..."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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
 | 1906 - 482 pàgines
...beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstacy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubim! And young men, glittering and sparkling angels; and maids, strange seraphic pieces of life... | |
 | 1906 - 858 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 902 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1907 - 450 pàgines
...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...the gates were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness... | |
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