...to make thee wither. The soft sky smiles, — the low wind whispers near: "Tis Adonais calls ! oh, hasten thither, No more let life divide what death...a star, Beacons from the' abode where the Eternal are." The admirers of Shelley may naturally feel curious to know how a poem of such distinguished and...

...wither. The soft sky smiles, — the low wind whispers near: "Tis Adonais calls ! oh, hasten thiiher, No more let life divide what death can join together....like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." The admirers of Shelley may naturally feel curious to know how a poem of such distinguished and...

...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are ; " and a passage, really endowed with wild and terrificgrandeur, in AIRD'S immortal poem, " The...

...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose saila were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly,...

...stanza reaches a swell and grandeur, perhaps unequalled in any passage in which it has ever been used. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." And...

...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the...

...remained of where it had been,—who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...a star, " Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.'"] governors of Christ Church Castle. The SOUTH TRANSEPT is Early English, but has a Perpendicular...

...touchingly commemorates the death of his friend Keats, leaves the subject in the following verse : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails are never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,...

...driven over the sea. It enveloped them and leveral larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the ipmost veil of Heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are....

...breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." It would be impossible to give an adequate idea of Gray's famous elegy by a short extract, but...