 Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind ; arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind ; Rush over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current ; turn us cold, And pale, and voiceless ; leaving in the brain...  Festus: A Poem - Page 139by Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current; turn us cold, And pale,...last, And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal." AGLADB.ON. That passage has, indeed, a greatness, yet not untinctured with — bombast. LAURIE. You... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind ; Ru<jh over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current ; turn us cold, And pale,...last, And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal. A LETTER. ' WEE* hThath had A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd The pnper that her hand had travell'd... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind, Rush over it, as rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current; turn us cold And pale,...¡ — leaving in the brain A rocking and a ringing ! " In these remarks we refer only to the general characteristics of the poetry of the period, with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind ; Rush over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current ; turn us cold, And pale,...last. And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal. A LETTER. WREN- he hath had A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd The paper that her hand had travell'd... | |
 | 1847 - 910 pages
...and search, And shake it — bow the tall son! as by wind — Rush over it like rivers over reeds • Which quaver in the current — turn us cold And pale...last, And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal !" Nor were they less fully under the fascination of his tender and graceful delineations of woman... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - American literature - 1847 - 1376 pages
...And shake it — bow the tall soul as by wind — Rush over it, like rivers over reeds, Which quiver in the current — turn us cold, And pale, and voiceless,...last, And close the soul with heaven as with a seal." Assuredly nothing is less poetical than this lust of exaggeration — this fanaticism of effect. There... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...And shake it — bow the tall soul as by wind — Rush over it, like rivers over reeds, Which quiver in the current — turn us cold, And pale, and voiceless,...last, And close the soul with heaven as with a seal." Assuredly nothing is less poetical than this lust of exaggeration — this fanaticism of effect. There... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...And shake it — bow the tall soul as by wind — Rush over it, like rivers over reeds, Which quiver in the current — turn us cold, And pale, and voiceless,...madness, might it last, And close the soul with heaven аз with a seal." Assuredly nothing is less poetical than this lust of exaggeration — this fanaticism... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind ; Rush over it, as rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current ; turn us cold And pale,...voiceless: — leaving in the brain A rocking and a ringing !" In these remarks we refer only to the general characteristics of the poetry of the period, with... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 328 pages
...arrest, and search, And shake it ; bow the tall soul as by wind ; Rush over it like rivers over reeds, Which quaver in the current ; turn us cold, And pale,...last, And close the soul with Heaven as with a seal." Sometimes he has glimpses of the happiest tenderness. " When he hath had A letter from his lady dear,... | |
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