“Smiling from those bright rays kiss” [“Heidelberg”] [poem, part 1]
Smiling with
Shoot
Like a lovely Oasis
Mid a desert dark and gloomy b
But a moment— darkly down
Came the cloudy heavens frown
Mong the leaves a fitful shaking.
Told the hoarse nightwind was waking
Grey upon his mountain throne
Heidelberg his ruins lone
Reared colossally,
All begirt with mighty trees
Bending to
Flapp
It was morning. from the height,
Cumbered with its ruins o hoar
All the lovely valley bright
We were looking oer,
With its silver river bending
Vineyards to its banks descending 2 *
Many a distant mountain chain
Girded round the mighty plain.
Here the sky was clear and bright
But upon their distant height
Like a monster oer his prey
Rain and tempest scowling lay
Like a mighty ocean wave
All along the horizon sweeping
Flinging far its cloudy spray
Oer the peaceful heaven beating
from
those bright rays kiss
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Shoot
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ng round effulgence moony
Ruskin's line number
940Like a lovely Oasis
Mid a desert dark and gloomy b
But a moment— darkly down
System generated line number
5Came the cloudy heavens frown
Mong the leaves a fitful shaking.
Ruskin's line number
945Told the hoarse nightwind was waking
Grey upon his mountain throne
Heidelberg his ruins lone
System generated line number
10Reared colossally,
All begirt with mighty trees
Ruskin's line number
950Bending to
Whistling
with the evens breezeFlapp
g
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ng faintly by.
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It was morning. from the height,
System generated line number
15Cumbered with its ruins o hoar
All the lovely valley bright
Ruskin's line number
955We were looking oer,
With its silver river bending
Vineyards to its banks descending 2 *
System generated line number
20Many a distant mountain chain
Girded round the mighty plain.
Ruskin's line number
960Here the sky was clear and bright
But upon their distant height
Like a monster oer his prey
System generated line number
25Rain and tempest scowling lay
Like a mighty ocean wave
Ruskin's line number
965All along the horizon sweeping
67
Flinging far its cloudy spray
Oer the peaceful heaven beating
System generated line number
30