 Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned; Nor fame nor power nor love nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround —...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 2691858Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands nd wilds Of error leads them by a tune entranced ;...insupportable fatigue of thought, And swallowing therefore walked with inward glory crowned j , Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...rounded wift a sleep,— is written in a frame of mind far different from that In which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair Itself is mild. Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...rounded with a sleep,— is written In a frame of mind far different from that in which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...described as " cheerful ; " I do not know on whose account this hypocrisy is maintained. Alas ! we have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. But it is not to be wondered at that others should take a brighter view of our condition. Just (again)... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown; I sit upon the sands if it has ä$ Arise« from its measured motion ; How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion I Alas ! I have... | |
 | 1845 - 606 pages
...life. Shelley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor' that the utmost he hoped to realize was — 1 Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 pages
...life. Slielley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor1 that the utmost he hoped to realize was — ' Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I sec whom... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 330 pages
...might remark the same of his 'Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples,' where he exclaims, ' Alas 1 I have nor hope nor health. Nor peace within, nor...content surpassing wealth. The sage In meditation found. I could He down like a tired child, And weep away the life and care Which I have borne, and yet must... | |
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