William Barnes citations

“The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will”

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William Barnes

Thoughts on Beauty in Art- Article in MacMillan's Magazine 1861.
Contexte: The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will, and.. the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.

“But no. Too soon I voun' my charm abroke.
Noo comely soul in white like her—
Noo soul a-steppen light like her—
An' nwone o' comely height like her—
Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.”

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The Wind at the Door, from Poets of the English Language, W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950).

“Since I do miss your vaïce an’ feäce
  In praÿer at eventide,
I’ll praÿ wi’ woone said vaïce vor greäce
  To goo where you do bide;”

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The Wife a-lost, from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879).