 A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power Girt round with weakness ; it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 2621858Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 pages
...and their prey. XXXII. A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked ; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce...withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. xxxni. His head was bound with... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...comes Shelley himself: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce...withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. In his other stanzas of self-description... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...father and their prey. 32 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - 280 A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round with weakness; - it can scarce uplift...broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brighdy: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. 33 His head was bound... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...conveyance of lament: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce...withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. His head was bound with pansies... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...their prey. XXXII A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — 280 A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce...withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can bum in blood, even while the heart mav break. XXXIII His head was bound with... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...form. What this might mean is made clearer by the following lines: A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? (28i-86) The Love survives, but "masked" in its desolation, which implies that the old longings remain... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...masked - a Power Girt round with weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking...withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood. even while the heart may break. 33 His head was bound with pansies... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
..., or Metamorphoses, book 3. A pardlike0 Spirit beautiful and swift A Love in desolation masked - a Power Girt round with weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow - even whilst we speak... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 2003 - 204 pages
...their father and their prey. A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round with weakness; - it can scarce uplift...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; - even while we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly; on a cheek... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 2005 - 297 pages
...hour chosen to compose his elegy]' symbolically enacts the dying Adonis. 'It is,' Shelley continues, 'a dying lamp, a falling shower, / A breaking billow; - even whilst we speak / Is it not broken?' (281-6). The inspiration that informs the creative process (Shelley's instantaneous Fourfold intuition... | |
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