William Gibson, U. S. N. |
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Riffs Augustus Ely Silliman |
intriguing congruencies
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| (But see Giorgione―he
has told it well), And over all the lurid light of hell! |
But in Capital flameing [<frescoed]
hell, Tis old Giotto gives it well. ["At the Hostelry"; cancelled MS couplet] |
| O simple doves, to Madonna dear... | Amulets gemmed, to Miriam dear... ["Magian Wine"] |
| The Antarctic constellations rise In vain to compensate our loss ["Around the World"] |
The Southern Cross it climbs the sky ...The loss no rising joys supply. ["Crossing the Tropics"] |
| ...a basilisk's force of fascination ["Castellamare"] |
What basilisk glance of conjuration! ["In a Bye-Canal"] |
| Gleam gliding through the dark green
water-weeds ["Persephone"] |
As glides in seas the shark, Rides Mosby through green dark. ["Scout Towards Aldie"] |
| Flames in song-wise into air. [Goethe's "Artist's Song"; last line] |
Flame to the height of ancient song. ["Camoens (Before)"; last line] |
| My heart keeps sweet through its
inexhaustion ["Indian Summer"] |
Old in
inexhaustion ["Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain Temple in Arcadia, One Built by the Architect of the Parthenon"] |
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Self-reverence died
from it, and all ruth. ["Castellamare"] |
Then did
self-reverence awake. ["Shelley's Vision"] |
| ...scornful only in its self-scorn | ... and
self-scorn― Immoderate in noble natures ["Donelson"] |
| Inviolate in the inviolable sea | Unswallowed by the swallowing sea ["Cumberland"] |
| Her far-off provinces Perus ["The Straits of Gibraltar," Vision of Faery Land, 78] |
Like calms far off Peru ["In a Bye-Canal"] |
