On a poet's lips I slept, Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept. Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected... Poems - Page 5by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 252 pages
...Desire's lightning feet : I must ride it back ere morrow, Or the sage will wake in sorrow. FOURTH SPIRIT. On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept ; 740 Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 242 pages
...Desire's lightning feet : I must ride it back ere morrow, Or the sage will wake in sorrow. FOURTH SPIRIT. On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept ; 740 Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 pages
...lightning feet: I must ride it back ere morrow, Or the sage will wake in sorrow. SPIRIT IV. On the poet's lips I slept, Dreaming like a love-adept, In...The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be: But from these create he can Forms more real than... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pages
...with grief, but with delight No more—O, never more 1 THE POET'S DREAM. [From Prometheus Unbound.] On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept...kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. Ho will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy bloom, Nor... | |
| Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pages
...sky and earth, Gathering all its golden worth From the Poet's heart. BW PROCTER : A Poefs Thought ' On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept . . . He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,... | |
| George Aberigh-Mackay - 1896 - 328 pages
...the course of an afternoon visit : for everyone is not Mrs. Lollipop. So he goes for the ideal : he feeds on the aerial kisses of shapes that haunt Thought's wildernesses: he conjures up before his mind's eye forms more real than living woman ; and in presence of nine or ten... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 512 pages
...Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept ; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, 74° But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt...The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, 745 Nor heed nor see, what things they be ; But from these create he can Forms more real... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 pages
...lightning feet : I must ride it back ere morrow, 735 Or the sage will wake in sorrow. FOURTH SPIRIT. On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept...breathing kept ; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, 740 But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 131 pages
...Desire's lightning feet : I must ride it back ere morrow, Or the sage will wake in sorrow. FOURTH SPIRIT. On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept...breathing kept ; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, 74° But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 490 pages
...lightning feet : I must ride it back ere morrow, 735 Or the sage will wake in sorrow. FOURTH SPIRIT. On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept...breathing kept ; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, 74o But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from... | |
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