...to my brow! Have I redeemed my pledge?" echoes the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (61-62): "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers / To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow?" As in Pauline, Browning echoes Shelley's text to affirm a difference, a difference that humanizes...

...of buds and blossoming Sudden thy shadow fell on me — I shrieked and clasp'd my hands in ecstacy! elevated sentiment, most tersely and musically thus expressed: And since, vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from...

...be at the least a version of the saint-like Asia dedicated to tending the Promethean fire: "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers / To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?" (Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 61-62). Shelley's Hymn, in turn, looks back to Wordsworth and the...

...whose love is innocent." Shelley composed "A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," in which he states: "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers/ To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?" (Socrates had made a similar promise to Love, as we have seen.) Yet it was John Keats, dead at...

...of huds and blossoming Sudden thy shadow fell on me — I shrieked and clasp'd my hands in erstacy! I vow'd that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine: have I not kept the vowWith beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from...

...mollify.3 Beauty (or "loveliness") is itself whelped by the same, uncanny parent as awful-ness: (6) I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from...