 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! Drive...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 280by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Hans Werner Breunig - 2002 - 356 pages
...ab, dieses Nachleben näher zu bestimmen. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty...the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an extinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...want to change words after you get started. Or try other forms, perhaps haiku, pantoum, or villanelle. Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though...of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 pages
...of death and fate: if I die, the wind itself will give voice to the ideals by which I tried to live: Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though...of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet... | |
 | Shu-mei Shih - 2001 - 450 pages
..."0N THE P0WER OF MARA P0ETRY" (1908) Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered bodies to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - 460 pages
..."Ode to the West Wind," written in 1819: Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty...of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened Earth The trumpet... | |
 | Bernadette Malinowski - 2002 - 468 pages
...60 f.). Die Beziehung zum ewigen Du ist Make me thy lyre, even äs the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty...birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, äs from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...long after he wrote Alastor. Compare the petitions on which the Ode to the West Wind (1820) closes. Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! (11. 63-67) 71. Sperry, Shelley's Major Verse, 35.... | |
 | Jalaja Narayanan - 2002 - 212 pages
...feeling also will give rise to hope and joy. The lines I memorized as a teenager often came to my rescue: Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantations of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth, ashes and sparks, my words among... | |
 | Elizabeth Pepper - 2002 - 52 pages
...delicious feeling to be borne along by its force. The poet Shelley in his Ode to the West Wind wrote, "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!" The familiar Irish salutation: "May the wind be always at your back" is possibly a folk memory of this... | |
 | Laura M. Giusti - 2002 - 196 pages
...libertà giovanile; si augura che arrivi anche per lui, come nella natura, una rinascita primaverile.1 (( Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / like withered leaves to quicken a new birthl )) È possibile anche una lettura politica dell'opera, in cui la rigenerazione rappresenterebbe... | |
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