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" The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself, is soft like Solitude's. "
Shelley, a critical biography - Page 237
by George Barnett Smith - 1877
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A VOYAGE IN THE 'SUNBEAM'

MRS. BRASSEY - 1878 - 652 pages
...during the whole night. Botalo£o Bay CHAPTER IV. k IODE JANEIRO. Tlu sun is warm, the sky is char. The waves are dancing fast and bright. Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon s transparent light. Friday, August i8th. — The clouds still hung heavy on the hills, or rather...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 5

Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...purple noon's transparent light, The breath of the moist air is light, Around its unexpanded bnds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds,...ocean floods, The city's voice itself is soft, like Solitnde'*. I see the deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves...
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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

Annie Brassey, baroness Annie Allnutt Brassey - 1879 - 528 pages
...and continued to do so during the whole night. CHAPTER IV. RIO DE JANEIRO. The run is warm, tht shy is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear Tht purple noon's transparent light. Friday, August 18M. — The clouds still hung heavy on the hills,...
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Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries

Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...does of the intellectual character. The fourth stanza will strongly move the reader of this memoir. " The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing...bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple moon's transparent light t ...... t A line is wanting in the Edition. Around its unexpanded buds ;...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...verses of three or four feet, eg Shelley Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples (ababbcb c4 ba): The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing...a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean-floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's, or Shelley's Skylark (ababsb6): Hail...
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The Musical Quarterly, Volume 9

Oscar George Sonneck - 1923 - 648 pages
...understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret; "the whisper of the Apennine"; "many a voice of one delight, the winds, the birds, the ocean floods, the City's voice itself"; the clarion of Spring and dirge of the dying year; the harmony in autumn, and silence that became music.3...
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Sailing Boats from Around the World: The Classic 1906 Treatise

Henry Coleman Folkard - 2000 - 586 pages
...ItalUn Birfers. BOATS OF THE ITALIAN RIVIBRA. ' The sun is warm, the eky is elear. The waves are daneing fast and bright ; Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent iigbt.' SHILLEY. THEEE is great similarity in the native sailing-boats of the Italian Biviera, more...
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A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire

Sugata Bose - 2009 - 360 pages
...keen eye, Tagore himself observed the sea. On a day bathed with sunshine he remembered Shelley's poem: The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright.27 But he interpreted these lines as a form of lament reflecting the weariness of life. In the...
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