 Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear 40 Was with its stored thunder labouring up.  Wheat and tares [by sir H.S. Cunningham]. - Page 263by sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1861 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 552 pages
...beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard. As if calamity had but began ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and Ihe sullen reor Was with its stored thunder laboring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching spot... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder laboring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching spot, Where beats the human heart, as if just there,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1849 - 440 pages
...bitterly. CHAPTER XXII. " There was a listening fear in her regard , As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sutlen rear Was, with its stored thunder, labouring up." KEATS' 'HYPERION.' No sooner was Mary alone... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...beautiful than beauty's self! There was a listening fear in her regard, Ae if calamity had but begun; Ae if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder laboring up." The majesty of these lines brings back a conviction tliat in the mind of the poet there... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 pages
...beautiful than Beauty'» selfThere wos a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had hut begnn ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder laboring upOne hand she press'd upon that aching efet Where beats the human heart, as if just thftf.... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder laboring up. One hand she pressed upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...beautiful than Beauty's self ! There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was, with its stor&l thunder, labouring up, AUTUMN. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of... | |
 | John Keats - 1863 - 104 pages
...beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear 40 Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching part Where beats... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...that sentiment in Ecclesiastes ; it speaks of an expression in a man's face : " As though the van ward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its storied thunder laboring up." This is why poor paterfamilias, sitting in the family pew, is not so... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1875 - 40 pages
...regard that blow as •a physical or as a mental one. She seems to feel "As if calamity had "but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their...malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder laboring up." One might say that she is calamity personified. Her senses swim with amazement, but she... | |
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