 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!  The Stoddard Library: Shakespeare-Taine - Page 109by John Lawson Stoddard - 1910Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...love, Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast, and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim as each are mirrors of The fire for...me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.", What could be stronger than this? And I could give many more examples both from "Adonais" and others... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...Lore Which through the web of being blindly wore By man and beast and earth and ah- and sen. Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for...on me. Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. LV. The breath whose might I have invoked in soog Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for...now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortahty. The breath whose might I have invoked in so .g Descends on me ; my spirit's bnrk is driven... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...author: "The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Par from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose...given. The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ; I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais,... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for...have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bnrk is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...things. ii. The last lines of the Adonais ! how singularly do they adumbrate the fate of their author: " The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...given. The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ; I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for...mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Deseends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...ofmany-color.d glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. * * * * My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...Whose sails were never to the tempest given." The elements of Shelley's genius were rarely mingled. The grand in nature delighted his muse. Volcanoes... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...has remarked — with words almost prophetic of his own approaching fate. "The breath, whose might 1 have invoked in song, Descends on me : my spirit's...; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaven The soul of Adonais,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...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 ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost... | |
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