 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 730 pages
...have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | William Sharp - 1887 - 242 pages
...swift, and proud — " what lyrical rapture and prophetic exaltation in this culminating stanza — " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | William Sharp - 1887 - 252 pages
...stanza — " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own 1 , The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one 1 Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 pages
...ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy...though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken... | |
 | Alfred Biese - 1888 - 526 pages
...Frühlingskleide, Nacht im Sternenschimmer Herbstesabend und des jungen Morgens goldne Dämmerungen. i Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | Alfred Biese - 1888 - 476 pages
...Frühlingskleide, Nacht im Sternenschimmer Herbstesabend und des jungen Morgens goldne Dämmerungen. 1 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take froin both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce. My spirit! Be thou... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...the change of seasons, and is consequently influenced by the winds that announce it." — PB SHELLEY. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My Spirit ! be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...says, in it "there is a union of lyrical breadth with lyrical intensity unsurpassed in English song." " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves, to quicken... | |
 | 1902 - 708 pages
...poetry of glory and triumph." Looking to America as the land of hope, he calls "To the West Wind" : "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if...harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone. Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth 1 The trumpet... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1891 - 336 pages
...have striven, As thus, with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy...though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken... | |
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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! 
