 Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when first The clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass. I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh Maydawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass,. ,j And...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Seite 202von Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1866 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 300 Seiten
...and has felt the divine spark quickened within him. As England's lyric poet sings his experience : " Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when first The clouds which warp the world from youth did pass. I do remember well the hour that burst My spirit's sleep ; a fresh... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 Seiten
...his beautiful dedication of "The Eevolt of Islam" to his wife Mary, " child of love and light," — " Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I know not why: until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from... | |
 | Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti - 1890 - 254 Seiten
...justice and freedom which this aroused in him, as shown in the stanzas fiom The Revolt of Islam— Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when...clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass. There can be no doubt that these verses are truly autobiographical; they indicate a first determination... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 Seiten
...moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen : But beside thee, where still my heart has ever been. 3. Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh May-dawn it wns, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why ; until there rose i'rom... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 434 Seiten
...bullies. To this he alludes in the often-quoted stanzas in the dedication of his " Revolt of Islam": "Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh May -dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why ; until there... | |
 | 1894 - 706 Seiten
...Prelude to Laon and Cylhna which describes his suffering among the unsympathetic inmates of a school — Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...did pass. I do remember well the hour which burst My epi.it'a sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 Seiten
...life is the most dramatic of the poets " Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when flrsj The clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass, I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit sleep . . . . " Many references are available. Holland's Arthur Bonnicostte; Warner's Being... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 490 Seiten
...feelings, and of his early anticipations with regard to the promises and the menaces of life :— " Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when...grass, And wept — I knew not why, until there rose, Prom the near schoolroom, voices that, alas ! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh... | |
 | Albert Walkley - 1897 - 180 Seiten
...when the soul awoke to its greatness, to its nearness and likeness to God, then the man was born. " I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep. A fresh May dawn it was. When J walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why : And then... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 Seiten
...principles of justice, kindness, and forbearance which he proclaimed and sought to practice in later days : Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I know not why ; until there rose From the near schoolroom voices that, alas ! Were but one echo from... | |
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