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" 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 262
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Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle

Jeffrey N. Cox - 2004 - 304 pages
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Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

Kim Wheatley - 1999 - 304 pages
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

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...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

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...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

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...
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In Pursuit of Love: The Short and Troublesome Life and Work of Percy Bysshe ...

Horst Höhne - 2000 - 360 pages
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Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney

Fiona J. Stafford - 2000 - 378 pages
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Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney

Fiona J. Stafford - 2000 - 376 pages
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Selected Writings

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...
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The Major Works

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 2003 - 845 pages
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