 If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!  Poems of Places: Italy - Page 167edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 668 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only les> free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1885 - 430 pages
...The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore neeil, 0 lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 272 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, 0 uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then wheij to outstrip the skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...strength, only les* free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could V>e The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 730 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O, uncontroulable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision ; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore... | |
 | William Sharp - 1887 - 252 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O, uncontrollable I If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision ; I would ne'er have striven. As thus with thcc in prayer in my... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 332 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! if even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, — I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my... | |
 | 1887 - 456 pages
...along by a whirlwind of poetic excitement. When he cries to the West Wind :— " If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then when to outstrip the skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with tbee in prayer in my... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! if even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision ; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...share The impulse of thy strength — only less free Than thou, 0 uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings...striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight... | |
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