 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
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...repels 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. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. THE awful shadow of some unseen power Floats,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 pages
...man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire from which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." This long but beautiful extract from one of Shelley's latest poems shows how incorrect it is... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 pages
...breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." It would be impossible to give an adequate idea of Gray's famous elegy by a short extract, but... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 pages
...prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ?— ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descend! on me : my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven 1 I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Barns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. It will be seen that whatever Shelley may from time to time have said about the immortality of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 442 pages
...of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. LV. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON. WHAT ! alive and so bold, oh earth? Art... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 632 pages
...of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. 55. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...fearfully, afar! Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaveri, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal »re. HELLAS; A... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...repels 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. It will be seen that, whatever Shelley may from time to time have said about the immortality of... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 pages
...repels 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. (Shelley.) DEATH. ||EATH is here, and death is there, Death is busy everywhere ; All around, within,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1879 - 660 pages
...of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. 55. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...fearfully, afar! Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaveu, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the F.ternal are. HELLAS; A... | |
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