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" Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again; Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive, Now thou art dead, as if it were... "
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought ... - Page 21
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880
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English & American Literature, Studies in Literary Criticism ..., Volume 5

Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 340 pages
...caress. ' ' Stay yet awhile ! speak to me once again ; Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word,...be as thou now art! But I am chained to Time, and can not thence depart!58 55. Who is the " living might" ? 56. Urania being a goddess must exist for...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...vain caress. 26 'Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again; Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word,...else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive, 230 Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that 1 am to be as...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...speak to me once again; Kiss me. so long but as a kiss may live: And in my heartless breast and buming brain That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive With food of saddest memory kept alive, 230 Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that I am to be as...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...vain caress. 26 'Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again; Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word....But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! 27 'O gentle child. beautiful as thou wert, Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon,...
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El platonismo romántico de Shelley

Patricia Cruzalegui Sotelo - 2001 - 194 pages
...justifica la muerte de Adonais (Keats) como su merecido tránsito a la realidad única de la muerte: «I would give/ All that I am to be as thou now art!» La impresión que le ha causado la muerte de Keats (un año antes que la suya) parece ser una dramática...
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The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature

R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 pages
...agency, and it is precisely because Urania's identification with the dead Adonais is merely hypothetical ("as if it were a part / Of thee, my Adonais! I would give / All that I am to be as thou now art!") that it must be, in Shelley's view, "heartless." Not only does the conditional mark Urania's speculative...
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Gathered

Sarrah Knight - 2004 - 462 pages
...consent. '"Stay yet awhile '"Speak to me once again; '"Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; '"And in my heartless breast and burning brain '"That word,...thoughts else survive '"With food of saddest memory survive.'" He raised onto his elbow, face still sleepy-looking. "Shelley," he murmured. His eyes had...
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Queer Gothic

George E. Haggerty - 2006 - 248 pages
...friend he gives his "spiritualized love" a specific erotic structure. The lines "In my thoughtless breast and burning brain / That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive" are reminiscent of Gray's Latin elegy in which the poet urges his departed friend to "look down from...
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