 Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. But they are still immortal , • Who, through birth's orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing...  Shelley, a critical biography - Page 212by George Barnett Smith - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. [Exeunt semrally. CHORUS. Worlds on worlds ore rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Sparklmg, bursting, borne away. But they are still immortal Who, through birth's orient portal, And... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...— they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. [Exeunt severally. CHORUs. Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...they are still immortal Who, through birth's orient porlal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 536 pages
...rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. soo But they are still immortal Who, through birth's orient...portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, 1 In Shelley's edition this exclama- lines on the death of Napoleon, pubtion is spelt Ay ; but as his... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 632 pages
...: they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. \Exeunt trveraffy. CHORUS. Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...chariots as they go : New shapes they still may weave* i New gods, new laws, receive : Bright or dim are they, as the robes they last On Death's bare ribs... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1878 - 128 pages
...that, though there may appear to be an element of truth in the dreary lamentation of the poet— " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles 0n a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away," — yet it is really more true to say that, at each moment... | |
 | Standish James O'Grady - 1878 - 302 pages
...Pioneer ... 243 XLVIH. AhCu! ... ... ... ... 258 ; HISTORY OF IRELAND. CHAPTER I. THE PRIME. •,• . " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever, From creation to decay, Like the foam-flakes on the river, Bubbling, bursting, borne away. " SHELLEY. '*'S'i planetary epochs, the Eocene... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...all probability they will supersede, without considering their merits in a relation more universal." Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...and light Gathered around their chariots as they go ; 1 Forman, iy. p. 95. New shapes they still may weave, New gods, new laws receive ; Bright or dim... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...all probability they will supersede, without considering their merits in a relation more universal." Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...and light Gathered around their chariots as they go ; 1 Forman, iv. p. 95. New shapes they still may weave, New gods, new laws receive ; Bright or dim... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 260 pages
...a part, and so on ad inftnitum ; that, as Shelley has magnificently put it in his " Hellas," — " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away." In the presence of such thoughts as these, one is tempted, like the Psalmist, to say in despair, "... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 282 pages
...part, and so on ad inftnitum • that, as Shelley has magnificently put it in his " Hellas," — " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away." In the presence of such thoughts as these, one is tempted, like the Psalmist, to say in despair, "... | |
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