The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly,... A Third Poetry Book - Page 4771889 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...of where it had been, — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? — , ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, ....given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven t I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The aoul of... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are ;" / and a passage, really endowed with wild and terrific grandeur, in Aird's immortal poem, "The... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...dim, as each arc mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clonds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. TO E*** V***. MADONNA, wherefore hast thou sent to me Sweet-basil and mignonette ? Embleming love... | |
| 1855 - 394 pages
...driven over the sea. It enveloped them and several larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. onward, Koberts looked again, and saw every other vessel sailing on the ocean except their little... | |
| 1866 - 780 pages
...shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis of that terrible storm, when his bark did go down, there was time... | |
| Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 pages
...— " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Fur from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...to make thee wither. The soft sky smiles, — the low wind whispers near : 'Tis Adonais calls ! oh, hasten thither, No more let Life divide what Death...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF ORION, LONGFELLOW. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance in the hand of... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consummg the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose...soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode whore the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF OEION, IiOirartuow. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...unquiet slumber lay, And the wild winds flew around, sobbing in their dismay.' ADONAIS. — Shelley. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven 1 I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven, The soul of... | |
| 1869 - 588 pages
...remained of where it had been — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais? The breath, whose might I have invoked in song Descends...from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose tails were never to the tempest given The massy earth ; and sphered skies are riven I I am borne darkly,... | |
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