 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, fearfully,...  English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson - Sida 528redigerad av - 1915 - 816 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 sidor
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE CRUCIFIXION. PB SRELLEV. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembinii I ASKED the Heavens;—" What... | |
 | 1839 - 914 sidor
...things. ii. The last lines of the Adonais ! how singularly do they adumbrate the fate of their author: " The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ; I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through... | |
 | 1848 - 614 sidor
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." At no period of Shelley's life did he enjoy good health ; and v.'hen he and Byron lived in the same... | |
 | 1866 - 924 sidor
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis ofthat terrible storm, when his bark did go down, there was time given... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 sidor
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.'" LORD BYRON. IN The Rural Life of England I have already recorded my visits to two of the most interesting... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 sidor
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning... | |
 | 1848 - 626 sidor
...driven Far from the shore, far from thetrembling'throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." At no period of Shelley's life did he enjoy good health ; and when he and Byron lived in the same neighbourhood,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 sidor
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." The last poem Shelley wrote was mostly composed in the fatal boat in which he perished ; it was called... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 sidor
...Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams or me, Ccnsuming the last clouds of cold mortality. LV. The breath...throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven 1 I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 sidor
...each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams or me, Consuming the last clouds of nold mortality. LV. The breath whose might I have invoked...throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning... | |
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