 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orh of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is : " This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. " What then were God to such as I ? Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,... | |
 | 1851 - 1094 pages
...and historical truth, that it may show us some gleams of higher and more general truths. Indeed, " Fantastic beauty, such as lurks In some wild poet when he works Without a conscience or an aim," has a most important end and aim, though the author may not be at all times conscious of it.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 136 pages
...heart at which he directs his powers. He does not employ his abilities upon " Fantastic beauty—such as lurks In some wild Poet when he works Without a conscience and an aim "— but difiuses throughout his productions a spirit of benignance and real goodness, whose... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 144 pages
...heart at which he directs his powers. He does not employ his abilities upon " Fantastic beauty—such as lurks In some wild Poet when he works Without a conscience and an aim"— bnt diffuses throughout his productions a spirit of benignance and real goodness, whose... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that isj This round of green, this orb of flame. Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'T were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...darkness at the core, .. ..' And dust and ashes all that is; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works " ithout a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? ' i I 'Twere hardly worth my while... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? ' 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose 'Twere best at once... | |
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My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without... 
