My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy... The Atlantic Monthly - Seite 4411928Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Keats - 1848 - 422 Seiten
...Sonnet, and attained by Keats so successfully on many other subjects :— ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES. My spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 Seiten
...Sonnet, and attained by Keats so successfully on many other subjects : — ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES. My spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| John Keats - 1859 - 524 Seiten
...an earthquake made thee steep, Another cannot wake thy giant size. XXI. ON SEEING THE ELGIN MAKBLES. MY spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| John Keats - 1863 - 370 Seiten
...an earthquake made thee steep, Another cannot wake thy giant size. XXI. ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES. MY spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| John Keats - 1874 - 320 Seiten
...glance, and hear their singing, And float with them about the summer waters. XVIII. ON THE ELGIN MARBLES. MY spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1876 - 372 Seiten
...Marbles, then the property of the English nation. He has tried to tell us how they affected him : " My spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| George Eliot - 1876 - 206 Seiten
...Deronda would not disturb this needful rest, but waited for a spontaneous movement. CHAPTER XLIII. ' My spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| George Eliot - 1876 - 444 Seiten
...Deronda would not disturb this needful rest, but waited for a spontaneous movement. CHAPTER XLHL " My spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleap, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 378 Seiten
...hadst thou, as it once befel, To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell. ON THE ELGIN MARBLES. Y spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 302 Seiten
...woodland rivulet, — a Poet's death. Jan. i8ij. ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES FOR THE FIRST TIME. QY spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking... | |
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