largeness of comprehension belonging to the Central Intelligence,

how remote the creativeconception is from all scholastic and



ethical formulae, I am led to think that a healthy mind ought to

change its mood from time to time, and come down from its noblest



condition, - never, of course, to degrade itself by dwelling upon

what is itself debasing, but to let its lower faculties have a



chance to air and exercise themselves. After the first and second

floor have been out in the bright street dressed in all their



splendors, shall not our humble friends in the basement have their

holiday, and the cotton velvet and the thin-skinned jewelry -



simple adornments, but befitting the station of those who wear them

- show themselves to the crowd, who think them beautiful, as they



ought to, though the people up stairs know that they are cheap and

perishable?



- I don't know that I may not bring the Poet here, some day or

other, and let him speak for himself. Still I think I can tell you



what he says quite as well as he could do it. - Oh, - he said to

me, one day, - I am but a hand-organ man, - say rather, a hand-



organ. Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the

stops. I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and



play you one of my ADAGIO movements, and some of you say, - This is

good, - play us so always. But, dear friends, if I did not change



the stop sometimes, the machine would wear out in one part and rust

in another. How easily this or that tune flows! - you say, - there



must be no end of just such melodies in him. - I will open the poor

machine for you one moment, and you shall look. - Ah! Every note



marks where a spur of steel has been driven in. It is easy to

grind out the song, but to plant these bristling points which make



it was the painful task of time.

I don't like to say it, - he continued, - but poets commonly have



no larger stock of tunes than hand-organs; and when you hear them

piping up under your window, you know pretty well what to expect.



The more stops, the better. Do let them all be pulled out in their

turn!



So spoke my friend, the Poet, and read me one of his stateliest

songs, and after it a gay CHANSON, and then a string of epigrams.



All true, - he said, - all flowers of his soul; only one with the

corolla spread, and another with its disk half opened, and the



third with the heart-leaves covered up and only a petal or two

showing its tip through the calyx. The water-lily is the type of



the poet's soul, - he told me.

- What do you think, Sir, - said the divinity-student, - opens the



souls of poets most fully?

Why, there must be the internal force and the external stimulus.



Neither is enough by itself. A rose will not flower in the dark,

and a fern will not flower anywhere.



What do I think is the true sunshine that opens the poet's corolla?

- I don't like to say. They spoil a good many, I am afraid; or at



least they shine on a good many that never come to anything.

Who are THEY? - said the schoolmistress.



Women. Their love first inspires the poet, and their praise is his

best reward.



The schoolmistress reddened a little, but looked pleased. - Did I

really think so? - I do think so; I never feel safe until I have



pleased them; I don't think they are the first to see one's

defects, but they are the first to catch the color and fragrance of



a true poem. Fit the same intellect to a man and it is a bow-

string, - to a woman and it is a harp-string. She is vibratile and



resonant all over, so she stirs with slighter musical tremblings of

the air about her. - Ah, me! - said my friend, the Poet, to me, the



other day, - what color would it not have given to my thoughts, and

what thrice-washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on women's



praises! I should have grown like Marvell's fawn, -

"Lilies without; roses within!"



But then, - he added, - we all think, IF so and so, we should have

been this or that, as you were saying the other day, in those

• mysterious [mi´stiəriəs] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (初中英语单词)


• sovereign [´sɔvrin] a.至高无上的 n.君主 (初中英语单词)


• lightning [´laitniŋ] n.闪电 a.突然的 (初中英语单词)


• reading [´ri:diŋ] n.(阅)读；朗读；读物 (初中英语单词)


• audience [´ɔ:diəns] n.听众；观众；接见 (初中英语单词)


• intelligence [in´telidʒəns] n.智力；消息 (初中英语单词)


• assistance [ə´sistəns] n.协作；援助；帮助 (初中英语单词)


• saddle [´sædl] n.鞍子 v.装鞍(于) (初中英语单词)


• unlike [,ʌn´laik] a.不同的 prep.不象… (初中英语单词)


• incident [´insidənt] n.小事件；事变 (初中英语单词)


• artificial [,ɑ:ti´fiʃəl] a.人工的；模拟的 (初中英语单词)


• portion [´pɔ:ʃən] n.嫁妆；命运 vt.分配 (初中英语单词)


• squire [skwaiə] n.护卫，侍从；乡绅 (初中英语单词)


• italian [i´tæliən] a.意大利 n.意大利人 (初中英语单词)


• explanation [,eksplə´neiʃən] n.解释；说明；辩解 (初中英语单词)


• fortunate [´fɔ:tʃənət] a.幸运的，侥幸的 (初中英语单词)


• peculiar [pi´kju:liə] a.特有的；奇异的 (初中英语单词)


• therefore [´ðeəfɔ:] ad.&conj.因此；所以 (初中英语单词)


• worthy [´wə:ði] a.有价值的；值得的 (初中英语单词)


• suspect [´sʌspekt, sə´spekt] v.怀疑；觉得 n.嫌疑犯 (初中英语单词)


• disgust [dis´gʌst] n.厌恶 vt.令(人)作呕 (初中英语单词)


• addition [ə´diʃən] n.加；加法；附加物 (初中英语单词)


• spoken [´spəukən] speak的过去分词 (初中英语单词)


• working [´wə:kiŋ] a.工人的；劳动的 (初中英语单词)


• mechanical [mi´kænikəl] a.机械的；力学的 (初中英语单词)


• employment [im´plɔimənt] n.工作；职业；雇用 (初中英语单词)


• relief [ri´li:f] n.救济；援救；减轻 (初中英语单词)


• purely [´pjuəli] ad.仅仅；简单地 (初中英语单词)


• wooden [´wudn] a.木制的；呆板的 (初中英语单词)


• wholly [´həul-li] ad.完全，十足；统统 (初中英语单词)


• passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)


• poetry [´pəuitri] n.诗；诗意 (初中英语单词)


• actual [´æktʃuəl] a.现实的；实际的 (初中英语单词)


• motive [´məutiv] n.动机；主题 a.运动的 (初中英语单词)


• impression [im´preʃən] n.印刷；印象；效果 (初中英语单词)


• steadily [´stedili] ad.坚定地；不断地 (初中英语单词)


• aspect [´æspekt] n.面貌；神色；方向 (初中英语单词)


• secondary [´sekəndəri, -deri] a.第二的；次要的 (初中英语单词)


• mental [´mentl] a.精神的；心理的 (初中英语单词)


• remote [ri´məut] a.遥远的；偏僻的 (初中英语单词)


• healthy [´helθi] a.健康的 (初中英语单词)


• dwelling [´dweliŋ] n.住所；寓所 (初中英语单词)


• humble [´hʌmbəl] a.谦卑的 vt.贬抑 (初中英语单词)


• velvet [´velvit] n.&a.天鹅绒(般的) (初中英语单词)


• driven [´driv(ə)n] drive 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)


• sunshine [´sʌnʃain] n.日光，阳光 (初中英语单词)


• schoolmistress [´sku:l,mistris] n.女教师；女校长 (初中英语单词)


• musical [´mju:zikəl] a.音乐的；悦耳的 (初中英语单词)


• sphere [sfiə] n.圆体；天体；范围 (高中英语单词)


• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)


• impatient [im´peiʃənt] a.不耐烦的，急躁的 (高中英语单词)


• horseback [´hɔ:sbæk] n.马背 (高中英语单词)


• dismount [dis´maunt] v.(使)下马(车) (高中英语单词)


• finding [´faindiŋ] n.发现物；判断；结果 (高中英语单词)


• exhibition [eksi´biʃ(ə)n] n.展览；显示；表演 (高中英语单词)


• learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)


• boyhood [´bɔihud] n.少年时代(期) (高中英语单词)


• sensitive [´sensitiv] a.敏感的；感光的 (高中英语单词)


• illusion [i´lu:ʒən] n.幻觉；幻影；错觉 (高中英语单词)


• characteristic [,kæriktə´ristik] a.特有的 n.特性 (高中英语单词)


• saying [´seiŋ, ´sei-iŋ] n.言语；言论；格言 (高中英语单词)


• contented [kən´tentid] a.满足的；心满意足的 (高中英语单词)


• portrait [´pɔ:trit] n.肖像；相片；雕像 (高中英语单词)


• specially [´speʃəli] ad.专门地；特别地 (高中英语单词)


• admirable [´ædmərəbəl] a.极佳的，值得赞美的 (高中英语单词)


• intellectual [,inti´lektʃuəl] n.知识分子 (高中英语单词)


• execution [,eksi´kju:ʃən] n.执行；演奏；表演 (高中英语单词)


• penalty [´penlti] n.刑罚；惩罚；障碍 (高中英语单词)


• external [ik´stə:nəl] a.外部的；外面的 (高中英语单词)


• contemplate [´kɔntempleit] v.注视；沉思；期待 (高中英语单词)


• comprehension [,kɔmpri´henʃən] n.理解；领悟 (高中英语单词)


• conception [kən´sepʃən] n.构思；概念；怀孕 (高中英语单词)


• jewelry [´dʒu:əlri] n.珠宝(饰物) (高中英语单词)


• painful [´peinfəl] a.痛(苦)的；费力的 (高中英语单词)


• commonly [´kɔmənli] ad.一般地；通常 (高中英语单词)


• internal [in´tə:nl] a.内部的；国内的 (高中英语单词)


• fragrance [´freigrəns] n.芬芳，芳香 (高中英语单词)


• wasting [´weistiŋ] a.&n.浪费(的) (英语四级单词)


• metropolis [mi´trɔpəlis] n.首都；大城市 (英语四级单词)


• unnatural [,ʌn´nætʃərəl] a.不自然的 (英语四级单词)


• fidelity [fi´deliti] n.忠实；精确；保真度 (英语四级单词)


• diversion [dai´və:ʃən] n.转移；消遣 (英语四级单词)


• carving [´kɑ:viŋ] n.雕刻(术)；雕刻品 (英语四级单词)


• automatically [ɔ:tə´mætikli] ad.自动地；无意识地 (英语四级单词)


• creative [kri:´eitiv] a.有创造力的；创作的 (英语四级单词)


• degrade [di´greid] v.降低；(使)堕落 (英语四级单词)


• basement [´beismənt] n.地下室 (英语四级单词)


• intellect [´intilekt] n.智力；有才智的人 (英语四级单词)


• glassy [´glɑ:si] a.光滑的；无神的 (英语六级单词)


• mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)


• respecting [ri´spektiŋ] prep.由于；鉴于 (英语六级单词)


• sanguine [´sæŋgwin] a.血红的 n.血红色 (英语六级单词)


• calmness [´kɑ:mnis] n.平静；安静 (英语六级单词)


• suggestive [sə´dʒestiv] a.暗示的；启发的 (英语六级单词)


• inwardly [´inwədli] ad.内向；独自地 (英语六级单词)


• beating [´bi:tiŋ] n.敲；搅打；失败 (英语六级单词)


• liking [´laikiŋ] n.爱好；嗜好；喜欢 (英语六级单词)


• doorstep [´dɔ:step] n.门阶 (英语六级单词)


• oftentimes [´ɔ:fəntaimz] ad.屡次，常常 (英语六级单词)