He felt the fullness of satiety: Then loathed he in his native land to dwell, Which seem'd to him more lone than
Eremite's sad cell.
Tiny
eremite at play in the grass where God is proclaiming the present.
minus, Dorcabune anthracotherioides, Eotragus sp., Miotragocerus gluten, Kubanotragus sakolovi, Sivoreas
eremite, Gazella sp., Giraffokeryx punjabiensis, Giraffa priscilla (Matthew, 1929; Colbert, 1933, 1935; Pilgrim, 1937, 1939; Raza, 1983; Akhtar 1992; Barry et al., 2002; Badgley et al., 2008; Khan et al., 2008, 2009, 2010).
His room seemed an
eremite's cave of meditation filled with icons, his walls lit by flames of the spiritual.
ACROSS: 1 Rased; 4 Pig; 6 Poteen; 9 Computer operator; 11 Valentine; 12
Eremite; 13 Rattler; 14 Rusticate; 15 Postcode; 17 Plantain; 21 Partially; 24 Notated; 27 Anybody; 28 Toadstool; 29 All in the same boat; 30 Cyrene; 31 Hid; 32 Ahead.
Petrarch-Actaeon, the anchorite or
eremite of love: One day hunting, as I used to do, l went, and that beast, beautiful and savage, in a fountain naked stood, at the time when the sun was burning strongest.
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless
Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores.
Here, the sonnet effectively consolidates a range of well-established Romantic motifs, all of which reinforce the ideal of quiet work: 'the secret ministry of frost' in Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight', the 'silent tasks' in Wordsworth's 'Gypsies', and the 'patient, sleepless
eremite' in Keats's 'Bright star' sonnet.
would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless
Eremite, The moving waters at their priest like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen masque Of snow upon the mountains and the moors.
According to Harpham, the
eremite isolates himself or herself in the desert and rejects human society.