 To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With...  Our Poets! - Σελίδα 53των Arthur Lynch - 1894 - 92 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Oscar Wilde - 1881 - 256 σελίδες
...SQUARE, WC 1881. CH1SWICK PRESS :— CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. HE LAS' To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed...wisdom, and austere control ? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which... | |
 | 1881 - 410 σελίδες
...be left to the critics. Mr. Wilde opens his book with this cry of remonstrance with fate : HELAS ! To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, s it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control ? Methinks my life is... | |
 | 1915 - 556 σελίδες
...The Ballad of Reading Gaol. In Helasf, his prologue to the Poems of 1881, he wavers momentarily: — To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed...given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control ? But at once he is off again on his mad quest of Beauty, Liberty, Life, and Pleasure. "I amused myself,"... | |
 | 1919 - 380 σελίδες
...früher erkannt worden ist. Wilde sagt selbst in dem Einleitungsgedicht zu seiner Sammlung von 1881: My soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play. Und an anderer Stelle (Tauchnitz 84, Bürden) klagt er: Tis I, 'tis I, whose soul is äs a reed Which... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1903 - 242 σελίδες
...other hand it may mean giving oneself over to the chance play of capricious and novel sensations — "To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play"— which means the utter disintegration of manhood. There was much of both elements in Goethe's life.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 σελίδες
...POEMS H&LASI TO drift with every passion ttR my tool It a stringed lute on which all winds can play, It it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control t Methinks my life is a twice -written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs... | |
 | Ernest La Jeunesse, André Gide, Franz Blei - 1905 - 120 σελίδες
...poem is necessary to 18 4 / ; the attempt at understanding its author. This was the cry of his soul: To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute whereon all winds may play— Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1906 - 88 σελίδες
...he be not crazy, find it out. Goethe, Wilhelm Meisler, translated by Carlyle, vol. II, p. 72. HELAS! "To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed...wisdom, and austere control? — Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay Which... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 738 σελίδες
...When Cromwell spake the word Democracy ? VII.—HELAS1 'T^O drift with every passion till my soul 1 Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play Is...'• ' • Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control 7 Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll, Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs... | |
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