ShelleyScribner, 1909 - 91 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abstractions Adonais air of search amidst anarch angel beauty box of toys breath Byron Catholic childhood childlike Church Cloud Coleridge consolation Crashaw death diction doom dream Dublin Review English Epipsychidion Essay eyes feet forget Francis Thompson Free Love genius GEORGE WYNDHAM gold-dusty with tumbling griefs growling the kennelled heart Hound of Heaven imagination immortality Israfel Keats less lish Literary Executor Lycidas lyric masterpiece melody Metaphysical School meteors misprise Myers Nature Nature poet never palm Pantheism paper Paradise passion PATMore Patmos peculiar to Shelley perhaps play poem poet poet's poetical purple Prometheus Unbound prose readers religion Revolt of Islam sense Shelleian SHELLEY BY FRANCIS Shelley's poetry sincere effluence sing song sorrow soul spirit stars straying tain tears teases into growling things Thompson's Shelley thought tion toying with imagery verse vision wild wind word Wordsworth's Wordsworthian Ye dantes YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 64 - ... 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, afar ! Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 86 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 62 - Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies A tear some Dream has loosened from his brain.' Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise ! She knew not 'twas her own ; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
Página 58 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Página 61 - Morning sought Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, Dimmed the aerial eyes that kindle day; Afar the melancholy thunder moaned, Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay, And the wild Winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay.
Página 37 - A well of love, it may be deep — I trust it is, — and never dry : What matter ? if the waters sleep In silence and obscurity. Such change, and at the very door Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.
Página 28 - Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief ; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear ; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul ; it...
Página 85 - The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Página 86 - His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Página 76 - Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will: and it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds; Which shackles accidents and bolts up change; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.