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,... The British Poets - Seite 2251855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 Seiten
...of where it had been, — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? — , ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, ....given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven t I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The aoul of... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 Seiten
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are ;" / and a passage, really endowed with wild and terrific grandeur, in Aird's immortal poem, "The Demoniac,"... | |
| 1866 - 780 Seiten
...lines, which are g till more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidente of his own death : . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost... | |
| George Herbert - 1866 - 722 Seiten
...lines, which are still more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidents of his own death : . . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven! lam borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil... | |
| Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 Seiten
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Fur from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The... | |
| 1866 - 854 Seiten
...its deep blue waves, of tho destined hour, so swiftly on the wing, when his spirit's bark would be driven " Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng. Whose sails are never to the tempest given ;" and through the massy earth and sphered skies ho would be borne darkly,... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 Seiten
...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...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF ORION, LONGFELLOW. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance in the hand of Time.... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 Seiten
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consummg the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode whore the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF OEION, IiOirartuow. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance... | |
| Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 Seiten
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whoso sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! lam borne... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 Seiten
...unquiet slumber lay, And the wild winds flew around, sobbing in their dismay.' ADONAIS. — Shelley. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven 1 I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven, The soul of... | |
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