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" The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully,... "
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 227
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven t I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The aoul of Adonais, like a star. Beacons from the abode where the eternat are.' " LORD BYKON. IN The Rural...
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Essays and poems, selected from the literary remains of F. Hinde

Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of...
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The British Poets, Volume 4

1855 - 394 pages
...storm was driven over the sea. It enveloped them and several larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song,...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven The soul of Adonais,...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and ..., Volume 67; Volume 69

1866 - 780 pages
...lines, which are g till more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidente of his own death : . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost...
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Dublin University Magazine

George Herbert - 1866 - 722 pages
...lines, which are still more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidents of his own death : . . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven! lam borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil...
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Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 pages
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Fur from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 99

1866 - 854 pages
...its deep blue waves, of tho destined hour, so swiftly on the wing, when his spirit's bark would be driven " Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng. Whose sails are never to the tempest given ;" and through the massy earth and sphered skies ho would be borne darkly,...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consummg the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 pages
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whoso sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! lam borne...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...unquiet slumber lay, And the wild winds flew around, sobbing in their dismay.' ADONAIS. — Shelley. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." —...
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