 | Alfred Biese - Nature in literature - 1888 - 526 pages
...Frühlingskleide, Nacht im Sternenschimmer Herbstesabend und des jungen Morgens goldne Dämmerungen. i Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth; And, by the incantation of this verse Scatter, as from... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1888 - 698 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth ; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...the change of seasons, and is consequently influenced by the winds that announce it." — PB SHELLEY. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...says, in it "there is a union of lyrical breadth with lyrical intensity unsurpassed in English song." " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1891 - 336 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless and swift and proud. v. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birtn , And, by the incantation of this verse. Scatter, as from... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1891 - 766 pages
...upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thec : tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre,...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit 1 Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 564 pages
...in my sore need. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed I A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One...impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like°thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 412 pages
...time, has been realized his own fervent prayer, embodied in his magnificent " Ode to the West Wind." " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is ; What if...impetuous one ! " Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And, by the incantation of this verse, " Scatter, as... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee— tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth ; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from... | |
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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! 
