 I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, — The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?  The British Poets - Page 1401855Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
.... . . desire . . . star: the cluster is in Shelley, (i) One word is too often profaned 13—14: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, (ii) Epipsychidion 218—24: 1 sprang, as one sandalled with plumes of fire, And towards the lodestar... | |
 | Nicholas D. Smith - 1998 - 340 pages
...appropriated, instead, the apology devised by one of his more prominent modern disciples,166 the poet Shelley: I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? Platonic Eros and What Men Call Love 101 Notes fAn earlier version of this paper was presented at an... | |
 | John Minford, Joseph S. M. Lau - 2002 - 1252 pages
...throwing itself against the screen. This image of the moth reminds one of Shelley's well-known lines: The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. Thus, the whole poem may be regarded as a symbol of a kind of romantic désir de l'impossible, of universal... | |
 | David Baird - 2002 - 272 pages
...is too like despair For prudence to smother. And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. l can give not what men call love. But wilt thou accept...heavens reJect not. — The desire of the moth for the Of the mght for the morrow. The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? PERCY BYSSHE... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...desire that motivates the poem by insisting that it is more than the usual erotic itch. I can not give what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship...Heavens reject not, — The desire of the moth for the star, Or the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? (11.... | |
 | Melanie George - 2002 - 353 pages
...coach rumble away from the curb, Parris's pale face haunting him long after she was gone. (^fifteen The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for...to something afar, From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Parris was glad for the cover of darkness that cloaked her, that hid her shame... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 2002 - 142 pages
...yet to discover. Shelley put it like this in his 1824 poem To - One Word is Too Often Profaned': The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for...devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow. We listen as a distinguished astronomer lectures on the remarkable ordering of the cosmos and wonder... | |
 | George Novack - 2002 - 278 pages
...human condition. The terrible destiny of the human race is like "the desire of the moth for the star/ the night for the morrow/ the devotion to something afar/ from the sphere of our sorrow". So the exasperated existentialist Sartre flings as his trump card against the dialectics of nature... | |
 | Denise DeCaires Narain - 2002 - 276 pages
...intentional or something the postcolonial reader inserts to 'explain' an uncomfortable cultural misfit? I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept...not, The desire of the moth for the star of the night tor the morrow, The devotion to something alar From the sphere of our sorrow? (The Moth, p. 1) Does... | |
 | Francis Wheen - 2005 - 340 pages
...proof that the outpouring of emotion was not so much genuine love or grief as what Shelley called "The desire of the moth for the star / Of the night for...to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow"? For many months after the event, it was treasonous even to pose the question. In April 1998 Professor... | |
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