 The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold: the gates were at first the end of the world.  Centuries of Meditations - Página 157por Thomas Traherne - 1908 - 341 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Traherne - 1903 - 274 páginas
...heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold ? Ill The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1903 - 542 páginas
...the tower ami spire of All Saints', the distance being closed by the tower of St. Martin at Carfax. everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were...were at first the end of the world. The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 376 páginas
...and in which he sees everywhere the beauty which his "eye brings with it the power of seeing " : — "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | 1906 - 796 páginas
...star we so blindly inhabit as it first dazzled his innocent senses is too exquisite to be passed over: "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 412 páginas
...exquisite prose in which he recounts the "•pure and virgin apprehension" of his childhood: — " The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 894 páginas
..."Centuries of Meditation": "The com was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor wax ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | 1906 - 858 páginas
...conception we have already noted in the poems is expressed with, to our mind, a far deeper beauty: — The corn was orient and immorta'l wheat which never should be reaped Dor was ever sown. l thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 902 páginas
...following passage on the child's vision of the world, from Traherne's "Centuries of Meditation": "Tbe corn was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor wag ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1907 - 354 páginas
...should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold ? The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1907 - 466 páginas
...star we so blindly inhabit as it first dazzled his innocent senses is too exquisite to be passed over: "The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never...were at first the end of the world. The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me ; their sweetness and unusual... | |
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