 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, 0 uncontrollable ! if even I were as in my boyhood,...wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have btriven As thus with thee in prayer in my... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...the scene of his boyish deflauce in those piercing lines from the Ode to the West Wind : — . . . "if even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The...wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus, with thee in prayer, in... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...gray with fear And tremble and despoil themselves : O hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 0 lift me as... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves : Oh, hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me... | |
 | 1890 - 366 pages
...and despoil themselves : O hear : If I woe a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cload to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power,...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seenvd a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 0 lift me... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...despoil themselves : Oh hear ! Iv. If I were a dead leaf thon mightest bear; If I were a swift clond to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less freo Than tliou, O uncontrollable ! If even I wers AS in my boyhood, and could be AS EXHORTATION. 487... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves : O hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share 45 The impulse of thv strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my... | |
 | 1869 - 436 pages
...gray with fear And tremble and despoil themselves : O hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave...wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip tlie skyey speed* Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...gray with fear And tremble and despoil themselves : O hear ! If I were a dead leaf them mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 0 lift me as... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves : Oh hear ! ' If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave...wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, — I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer... | |
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If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable! 
