 To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play. Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With...  The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections - 242 psl.autoriai: Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 355 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Oscar Wilde - 1881 - 256 psl.
...SQUARE, WC 1881. CH1SWICK PRESS :— CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. HE LAS' To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control ? Methinks my life is... | |
 | 1881 - 408 psl.
...be left to the critics. Mr. Wilde opens his book with this cry of remonstrance with fate : HELAS ! To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, s it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control ? Methinks my life is... | |
 | 1915 - 556 psl.
...The Ballad of Reading Gaol. In Helasf, his prologue to the Poems of 1881, he wavers momentarily: — To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control ? But at once he is off... | |
 | Arthur Lynch - 1894 - 118 psl.
...Wilde's career, and nowhere is this regret more profoundly expressed than in one of his own sonnets : " To drift with every passion, till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control ? — Methinks my life... | |
 | 1919 - 380 psl.
...früher erkannt worden ist. Wilde sagt selbst in dem Einleitungsgedicht zu seiner Sammlung von 1881: My soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play. Und an anderer Stelle (Tauchnitz 84, Bürden) klagt er: Tis I, 'tis I, whose soul is äs a reed Which... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1903 - 242 psl.
...other hand it may mean giving oneself over to the chance play of capricious and novel sensations — "To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play"— which means the utter disintegration of manhood. There was much of both elements in Goethe's life.... | |
 | Ernest La Jeunesse, André Gide, Franz Blei - 1905 - 120 psl.
...poem is necessary to 18 4 / ; the attempt at understanding its author. This was the cry of his soul: To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute whereon all winds may play— Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1906 - 172 psl.
...sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell. RAVENNA, March, 1877. OXFORD, March, 1878. POEMS MDCCCLXXXI HE LAS! TO drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that / have given away M.ine ancient wisdom, and austere control ? Rethinks my life... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1906 - 88 psl.
...he be not crazy, find it out. Goethe, Wilhelm Meisler, translated by Carlyle, vol. II, p. 72. HELAS! "To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? — Methinks my life... | |
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