All that is insupportable in thee Of light, and love, and immortality! Sweet Benediction in the eternal Curse ! Veiled Glory of this lampless Universe! Thou Moon beyond the clouds ! Thou living Form Among the Dead! Thou Star above the Storm! Thou Wonder,... Epipsychidion - Page 8by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1923 - 1012 pages
...large-eyed wonder, and ambitious beat, of the aspiring boy. (transí.) Lightning-like. 1821 S. Ep 34: The dim words which obscure thee now Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow. Many-mingling. 1813 S. UM viii. 99: The sweet and many-mingling sounds Of kindliest human impulses.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1924 - 520 pages
...Star above the Storm! Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! Thou Harmony of Nature's artl Thou Mirror In whom, as in the splendour of the Sun, All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on I Ay, even the dim words which obscure thee now Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow; I pray... | |
| Peter Joseph Chandlery - 1924 - 314 pages
...Star above the Storm ! Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror I Thou Harmony of Nature's art I Thou Mirror In whom, as in the splendour of the Sun, All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on ! " — Epipsychidion. SECTION LX MARY HONOURED BY NON-CATHOLICS (cent.) SIR WALTER SCOTT, who had... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1926 - 758 pages
...living Form Among the Dead! Thou Star above the Storm! Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror In whom,...unaccustomed glow; I pray thee that thou blot from this sad All of its much mortality and wrong, With those clear drops, which start like ^song sacred dew From... | |
| University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1927 - 392 pages
...immortal dream Which walks, when tempest sleeps, the way of life's dark stream."2 The beloved is the mirror, " In whom as in the splendour of the Sun All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on."8 She is " the veiled glory of this lampless universe,'' " An image of some bright eternity A shadow... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...living Form Among the Dead! Thou Star above the Storm! Thou Wonder and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror In whom,...Sun, All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on! The poem affirms images of Emily, but no single image, and proceeds to recount the struggle of image-making,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Storm! Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror 30 In whom, as in the splendour of the Sun, All shapes...now Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow; 1 pray thee that thou blot from this sad song All of its much mortality and wrong, With those clear... | |
| Helen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir - 2006 - 340 pages
...living Form Among the Dead! Thou Star above the Storm! Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror In whom,...Sun, All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on! (27-32) Shelley here gives new life to several of the Virgin Mary's traditional epithets: stella maris... | |
| Miranda Seymour - 2000 - 722 pages
...stanzas of his poem, was given Mary's own former role as the moon, 'thou Beauty, and thou Terror! / Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror / In whom,.../ All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on!' When the moon reappears in the central section of the poem, it represents Mary, but in the cruellest... | |
| Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - 2006 - 284 pages
...suggested that poetry actually serves only to obscure the Divine rather than to allow for its envisaging: 'even the dim words which obscure thee now / Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow' (11. 33^1). Wordsworth approaches this difficulty from the other side when he writes, The concerns... | |
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