 | George Eliot - 1883 - 294 頁
...which his enemies pay him when they utter their bitterest dictum, namely, that he is " nur Dirhter" — only a poet. Let us accept this point of view for...poet. The finest products of his genius are " Short swallow flights of song that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away ;" and they are BO emphatically... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 頁
...prayer. Ibid, xxxii. Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form. Ibid, xxxiii. Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. Ibid, xlvii. Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 402 頁
...caricature, and excites our laughter. Etit ice laugh then only at the caricature, not at the gmi." For the rest, why should we demand of Heine that he...swallow-flights of song that dip Their wings in tears, aud skim away;" and they are so emphatically songs, that, in reading them, we feel as if each must... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1884 - 996 頁
...uni by the sorrow of its own soul. Nothing can be more simple than the form of the poem as it flows. "Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away," the poet says himself, but it is something else which we can all acknowledge — something which has... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 頁
...mission. Not more the great, burdened with thought, luminous with illustration, than the slight, " Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away." We come, sometimes, from the toils of the world and all its weary intercourse ; — one little lyric... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 頁
...deepest measure from the chords : Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. XLIX. From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many ashiver'd... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 300 頁
...The deepest measure from the chords: Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. XLIX. FBOM art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shiver'd... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 頁
...xxxii. Stanza i. Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form. xxxiii. Stanza i. Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. rleiii. Stanza 4. Hold thon the good ; define it well ; For fear divine Philosophy Shonld pnsh heyond... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 頁
...deepest measure from the chords : Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. From art, from nature, from the schools. Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shiver'd... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - 1892 - 140 頁
...referred to are touched by the Muse. Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. xlviii. 13-16. And this simile is carried a step further in L/4* xlix. : it is but the surface of his... | |
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Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. 
