Pearl Poet Quotes

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Dazzling stones shone in the deep
Like glint through glass, glowing and bright;
As streaming stars, when dalesmen sleep,
Flare in the welkin on winter night.

Pearl Poet
For when hell heard the hounds of heaven
It was grisly glad, and grinding apart
The great bars of the abyss, it burst swiftly upwards,
Ripping open the region with rifts most terrible.
Then crags and cliffs were cloven in shreds
Like loose leaves of a book that flutter about.

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It weltered on the wild waters, went where it would,
Drove above the depths, in danger as it seemed,
Without means of mainmast, mizzen or bowline,
Without cable or capstan for clinging to anchors,
Or hurrock or hand-helm hoped on the rudder,
Or any swaying sail for seeking a haven.

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The precious adornment of down and dale,
Of wood and water and noble plain,
Brought me to bliss, made bitterness fail,
Allayed my distress, destroyed my pain.
Down by a stream of steady flow
I moved in bliss, my mind a-thrill,
And further along that river-land low,
The joy of my heart grew stronger still.

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Alas! In a garden I lost it, let
It go to the ground on a grassy plot.
Bereft of love, I am racked by regret
For Pearl, my own Pearl without a spot.

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The lover and his lady looked their last farewell,
Ending everything for all time, for ever parting.
When the forty days were finished, no fleshly thing moved.

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