 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,...  Wordsworth to Dobell - Page 363edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...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...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! 1 am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...of cold mortahty. The breath whose might I have invoked in so .g Descends on me ; my spirit's bnrk is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE CRUCIFIXION. PB SRELLEV. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembinii I ASKED the Heavens;—" What... | |
 | 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...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.1* Shelley. III. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered .-kit's are riven : I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. PB SHELLEY. THE CRUCIFIXION. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembini. I ASKED the Heavens ; — "... | |
 | 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...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.4 Shelley. m. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...remained of where it had been- — who but will regard as a propheey the last stanza of the" Adonais!" The breath, whose might I have invoked in song Descends...The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am horne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...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...burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adouais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. MISCELLANEOUS. TO E*** V»*».... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...propheey the last stanza of the" Adonais!" The breath, whoso might I have invoked in song Deseends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore,...veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Deaeons from the abode where the Eternal are. * Captain Roberts watehed the vessel with his glass from... | |
 | 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...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." At no period of Shelley's life did he enjoy good health ; and v.'hen he and Byron lived in the same... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis ofthat terrible storm, when his bark did go down, there was time given... | |
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