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
| John V. Murphy - 1975 - 212 Seiten
...Alastor prior to the Poet's dissolution: While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood,...poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard—I saw them not— When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time when winds are... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 Seiten
...Intellectual Beauty" (1816), lines 49-54: 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 — not entirely throw them aside, before some other system should occupy their place in my mind. When... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 Seiten
...Intellectual Beauty we find these lines. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a rowned womanhood to be the royal thing! These passages,...displayed, and we should still fail, as lamentably as birds arc wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of buds and blossoming Sudden thy shadow... | |
| Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 Seiten
...those "poisonous names [of absolute gods] with which our youth is fed" (1. 53): I was not heard—I saw them not— When musing deeply on the lot Of life,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of buds and blossoming,— Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in extacy!... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...human thought or form, (1. 13 — 15) 31 While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a (1. 49-52) BLPL; EnRP; HAP; HelP; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBNC; PoE; TOF The Indian Serenade 32 Oh, lift... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 Seiten
...reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, 50 And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes...names with which our youth is fed, I was not heard - 1 saw them not When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All... | |
| Peter Ackroyd - 1988 - 244 Seiten
...peer closely in order to decipher them: While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood,...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Someone tugged at his sleeve: he looked down in alarm, and an old man was staring up at him with bright... | |
| Guinn Batten - 1998 - 326 Seiten
..."The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power" 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 — Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 Seiten
...Inteltretual Beauty we find these lines. While vet a boy 1 sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin. And starlight wood,...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead: 1 called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed: 1 was not heard: I saw them not When musing... | |
| Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 Seiten
...again in the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood,...youth is fed — I was not heard — I saw them not. After supping on the horrors of the Minerva press, he was subject to strange, and sometimes frightful... | |
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