Continental Drama, Vol. 26

Download or read book Continental Drama, Vol. 26 written by Pierre Corneille and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Continental Drama, Vol. 26: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller; With Introductions and Notes Splitting the crags of God as it retires; But sparing still what it should only blast, This guilty piece of human handiwork, And all that are within it. Oh, how oft, How oft, within or here abroad, have I Waited. And in the whisper of my heart Pray'd for the slanting hand of heaven to strike The blow myself I dared not, out of fear Of that Hereafter. Worse, they say, than here, Plunged headlong in, but. Till dismissal waited, To wipe at last all sorrow from men's eyes, And make this heavy dispensation clear. Thus have I borne till now, and still endure, Crouching in sullen impotence day by day, Till some such out-burst of the elements Like this rouses the sleeping fire within; And sanding thus upon the threshold of Another night about to close the door Upon one wretched day to Open it On one yet wretcheder because one more, Once more, you savage heavens, I ask of you I, looking up to those relentless eyes That. Now the greater lamp is gone below. Begin to muster in the listening skies; In all the shining circuits you have gone About this theatre of human woe, What greater sorrow have you gazed upon Than down this narrow Chink you witness still And which, did you yourselves not fore-devise. You registered for others to fulfil! Fin. This is some Laureate at a birthday ode No wonder we went rhyming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.