 While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed ; I was...  The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life - Seite 35von Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 1004 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 542 Seiten
...of startled and fascinated dread : " While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wiike to bring News of buds and blossoming, Sudden thy shadow fell on me j 1 shrieked, and clasped... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 558 Seiten
...ghost to appear to him, but in vain : — While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood,...our youth is fed: I was not heard : I saw them not. But though Shelley could meet with no ghost then, he did in after life, and the first that we hear... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 504 Seiten
...appear to him, but in vain : II.— 21 While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood,...our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not. But though Shelley could meet with no ghost then, he did in after life, and the first that we hear... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 514 Seiten
...ghost to appear to him, but in vain : — While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of hij,'h talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed: I was... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 Seiten
...be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghoste, and sped Tliro' many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to firing News of birds and blossoming, Sndden, thy shadow fell on me ; I shrieked, and clasped my hands... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Paul, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Friedrich Schiller, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arthur Schopenhauer - 1868 - 586 Seiten
...a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And star-lit wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." TO EMERGE FROM THIS SEA OP ERRORS. Faust, p. 45. £> gludlid) ! roer nod) tjoffen fann SluS btefcm... | |
 | 1869 - 834 Seiten
...Beauty, " While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and rum, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead ! " D. Appleton & Company are binding in serviceable 1:• mo. volumes their cheap pamphlet series... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 664 Seiten
...Like life and fear, a dark reality ! 5. While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden thy shadow fell on me : — I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy... | |
 | Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870 - 674 Seiten
...yet a boy, I sought for ghostp, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlit wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." But in all this there does not seem to have been a particle of what is called absence of mind.f These... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 Seiten
...be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden, thy shadow fell on me ; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy I... | |
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