 A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power Girt round with weakness ; it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak...  Epipsychidion - Page xlviby Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 246 pages
...rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. xxxn A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked ; — a...billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. XXXII. A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power...billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly : on a cheek The life can burn in blood,... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...emphasizes only their symbolic aspect. Amid the others, comes Shelley himself: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked; — a Power...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. 32 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - 280 A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round...breaking billow; even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brighdy: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...Spenserian stanza an appropriate vehicle for the conveyance of lament: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — 280 A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can bum in blood, even... | |
 | Kim Wheatley - 1999 - 292 pages
...and thus to check the breaking down of the boundaries around the self: A pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...survived, though in a concealed form. What this might mean is made clearer by the following lines: A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? (28i-86) The Love survives, but "masked" in its desolation, which implies that the old longings remain... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...for the story of Actaeon see ch. 3, p. 4 1 , or Metamorphoses, book 3. A pardlike0 Spirit beautiful and swift A Love in desolation masked - a Power Girt...weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow - even whilst we speak... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...masked - a Power Girt round with weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow - even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood. even... | |
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