Tag Archives: 1800s
“Bright Star” by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s … Continue reading
“The Arrow and the Song” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, … Continue reading
“Terminus” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is time to be old, To take in sail: The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Come to me in his fatal rounds, And said: “No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy … Continue reading