 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 440 pages
...sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, 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 thou... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 474 pages
...sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ! Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. HELLAS ; A LYRICAL DRAMA. MANTIS 'E1M' 'E26AQN 'ArQNQN. CEoip. COLOH. TO HIS EXCELLENCY PRINCE ALEXANDER... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1886 - 70 pages
...sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. 25 DATE DUE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 ... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...sphered 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 abode where the Eternal are. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. BEYOND THE HILLS. the hills where suns go down, And brightly beckon as they go,... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1985 - 182 pages
...sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Shelley's poem is itself a portion of the dome of manycoloured glass. In the end he bequeathes it to... | |
 | Garrett Stewart - 1990 - 356 pages
...by a double grammar itself energized by phonetic ambiguity: Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. (ll. 493-95) The genealogical portmanteau that has kept Adonis and Adonai vying for lexical and semantic... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. (Fr. LII) 14 rPo Sheridan POETRY QUOTATIONS 7 It is most true, what we call Cupid's dart An Poet POETRY QUOTATIONS Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 15 I have made my bed In channels and on... | |
 | Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - 1993 - 312 pages
...sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. (PW, 4:236) By quoting this stanza in her note, Mary Shelley joins her voice, in a spectral temporality,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...sphered skies are riven! 1 am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon2" What! alive and so bold, O Earth? Art thou not... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar: Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Active participation is relegated to past creative activity ("I have invoked in song") ; everything... | |
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... 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, fearfully,... 
