 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...True, — We will weep not . . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 328 pages
...endure ; but to him the Statue was a symbol, not an Idol. — No, sweet singer, it is not true that, "Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the Truth." For art is that debonaire romance in which Truth... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 314 pages
...the True,— We will weep not. . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each God's aureole— And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...— We will weep not . . . ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Fan is dead. xxXiv. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth : And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...have created* in him; and beside these truths of nature all lower things must stand back abashed. " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And these debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...falsehood at the True, We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole, And Pan is dead. " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot course is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...most of all precious, for its bold modernism, and haughty protest against the cant of classicism, " Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth: And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1862 - 368 pages
...falsehood at the True We will weep not ! Earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
 | 1863 - 774 pages
...through the voice of nature the secret thrill of His perfect Unity, His incomprehensible Infinity.' 'Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot race is run ! Look up, poets,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 480 pages
...— We will weep not . . . / earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. xxxiv. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run. Look up, poets,... | |
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By your beauty, which confesses Some chief Beauty conquering you — By our grand heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, — We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies... 
