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
| 1869 - 444 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...sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas II have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that Content surpassing wealth The... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...I sec 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...hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, 2~> Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 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 noontide ocean Is flashing...How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion! in. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing... | |
| Thomas John Ouseley - 1870 - 396 pages
...star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashed round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now sha/re m my emotion." SHELLEY. MONA'S ISLE. Canto First. DOUGLAS. BRIGHT emerald, from the Amethystian sea,... | |
| Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pages
...recollect rightly, the truth flashes across him for a moment, amid the clouds of selfish sorrow — Alas, I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within,...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned. 'Nor' alas for the spiritual bathos, which follows that short gleam... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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 noontide 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... | |
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