 O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to...  The Divine Comedy - Page 231by Dante Alighieri - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 468 pages
...image, and compares the dead leaves to ghosts : — O wild West Wind ! thou breath of Autumn's being I Thou from whose presence the leaves dead Are driven...hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes. CANTO IV. 1. Dante is borne across the river Acheron in his sleep, he does not tell us how, and awakes on the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...published in SingSong(1872). 3 O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from...pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, (1792-1822) British poet. "Ode to the West Wind," 1.1-5 (1819). Opening lines.... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...produce a new ideal life: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from...pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure... | |
 | Charles James Frank Dowsett - 1997 - 548 pages
...pestilence-stricken, multitudes): O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autum's being, Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from...pale, and hectic red. Pestilence-stricken multitudes ... And how does this same poet conjure up the inert earth in the grip of Autumn? Like Keats, with... | |
 | Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...(1792-1822) Ode to the West Wind I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from...pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 pages
...West Wind is represented: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from...pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes. (1l. 1-5) After "breath of Autumn's being," one is disposed to see in the ensuing figure a picture... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...10692 'Ode to the West Wind' 0 wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen lt their nests in my beard!' 6147 Book of Nonsense...Man in a tree, Who was horribly bored by a bee; When Pestilence-striken multitudes. 10693 'Ode to the West Wind' Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...brought me there brought you. O Wild West wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from...fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence- stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind": O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-sticken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed.... | |
 | S. George Philander - 1998 - 282 pages
...west wind of Shelley's poem: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode io the West Wind") Why are the winds wild? Why especially so in autumn... | |
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