Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought? Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:
Read DetailsHe stood still in the gloom of the hall, trying to catch the air that the voice was singing and gazing up at his wife. There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something. He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.
Read DetailsNor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten’d … … While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things
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