 | Cleanth Brooks, Paul Rand - 1947 - 328 pages
...permission of The Macmillan Company. IT Her present image floats into the mind — Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the...Better to smile on all that smile, and show There wa comfortable kind of old scarecrow. What youthful mother, a shape upon her lap Honey of generation... | |
 | T. R.. Barnes - 1964 - 340 pages
...before me as a living child. IV Her present image floats into the mind — Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the...mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledxan kind Had pretty plumage once — enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pages
...floats into the mind'. There has been considerable debate about whether the Unes that describe her, 'hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind / And took a mess of shadows for its meat', suggest anorexic glamour or the ravages of time.12 The latter explanation is preferable. The 'hollow'... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...For even daughters of the swan can share Something of every paddler's heritage — (1. 20—21) 10 eless is as poor as winter To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Good God, the so (1. 27—28) 11 Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 pages
...explored in "Sailing to Byzantium" and "The Tower." The beloved's "present image floats into the mind"— "hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind / And took a mess of shadows for its meat." And the poet himself, he reminds us selfderisively, is at best "a comfortable kind of old scarecrow." But... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...stands before me as a living child, Her present image floats into the mind — Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the...Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once — enough of that, H) Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow. What youthful... | |
 | Herman L. Sinaiko - 1998 - 358 pages
...stands before me as a living child. IV Her present imageßoats into the mind — Did Quattrocentoßnger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the...a mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never ofLedean kind Had pretty plumage once — enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show... | |
 | Vicki Mahaffey - 1998 - 295 pages
...they point the contrast between the "Ledaean body" of his beloved in childhood and her present image, "Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind / And took a mess of shadows for its meat." And as the speaker realizes the vitality he has lost, the poem focuses on the way his desires de-sire for... | |
 | Brook Thomas - 1998 - 342 pages
...I feared her, but she is my child more than my sweetheart" (Foster 407). "present image," something "Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind/ And took a mess of shadow for its meat" but the tone is certainly not one of bitter regret (216). The first three stanzas... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 pages
...before me as a living child. IV Her present image floats in to the mind— 25 Did quattrocento4 finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mass of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage onee— enough... | |
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Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? 
