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"We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;"
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 17-20). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth."
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 23-24). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:"
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,"
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 9-10). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;"
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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