...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,...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring...

...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,...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, W1nd, If Winter comes, can Spring...

...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,...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring...

...harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit f1erce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring...

..."conductor,"just as other terms are associated with the terms from the discussion of Dante's Prometheanism: Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous...universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! (11. 61-64) If we take the account in the Defence as understood in this passage, then the simile "like...

...leaves are falling like its own! The tomult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, automnal tone. Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,...dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves. . . . The European romantics of the nineteenth century are drawn to a pantheistic fusion between the...

...universal power will effect a rebirth among mankind as inevitably as the seasons follow one another: Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! Oh wind, If winter comes, can spring...

...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,...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring...

...Shelley the poet longs for the power to precipitate spring (a figure for future political freedom): Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring...

...autumnal tone, (60) Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me impctuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like...quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this versc, (65) Scatter, äs from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be...