The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,... The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 430by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 708 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." It would be impossible to give an adequate idea of Gray's famous elegy by a short extract, but the... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are ;" / and a passage, really endowed with wild and terrific grandeur, in Aird's immortal poem, "The Demoniac,"... | |
| 1855 - 394 pages
...driven over the sea. It enveloped them and several larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. onward, Koberts looked again, and saw every other vessel sailing on the ocean except their little schooner,... | |
| 1866 - 780 pages
...shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis of that terrible storm, when his bark did go down, there was time given... | |
| George Herbert - 1866 - 722 pages
...throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven! lam borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis of that terrible storm, when hie bark did go down, there was time given... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, 'now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF ORION, LONGFELLOW. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance in the hand of Time.... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consummg the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode whore the Eternal are. THE OCCULTATION OF OEION, IiOirartuow. I SAW, as in a dream sublime The balance... | |
| 1869 - 588 pages
...throng, Whose tails were never to the tempest given The massy earth ; and sphered skies are riven I I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning...star, Beacons from the abode, where the Eternal are. " Captain Roberts watched the vessel with his glass from the top of the lighthouse at Leghorn, on its... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 664 pages
...of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. 55. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA. MANTIS 'EIM' 'E20AON 'ATB8OS. CEcip. COLON. TO HIS EXCELLENCY PEINCE ALEXANDEE... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven I I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ! Whilst, burning...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." Putney t May »/, 1839. 4 Captain Roberts watched the vessel with his glass from the top of the light-house... | |
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