ShelleyBurns and Oates, 1909 - 91 páginas |
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28 ORCHARD STREET Adonais air of search Alice Meynell amidst believe box of toys BURNS & OATES Byron Catholic Catholicism cast childlike Church Coleridge conscious Coventry Patmore Crashaw death diction distrust doom dream Dublin Review Enchanted child English Essay eyes feet forget Francis Thompson Free Love gains by virtue GEORGE WYNDHAM glory griefs haps heart Hound of Heaven immortality Keats Literary Executor live Mary Shelley masterpiece melody Metaphysical School meteors misprise Myers Nature never Pantheism paper boat passion perhaps play poet poet's poetical purple prescriptive aid prose psaltery pure Poetry read Shelley readers religion Revolt of Islam round the cowls Saighton Savonarola's sheer misery Shelleian Shelley's poetry sincere effluence sing song sorrow soul spirit stars straying Swin tain tears theory of Free things Thomp tion toying with imagery Ushaw College verse vision wild Wilfrid Wilfrid Meynell Wordsworth's write
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Página 36 - ... 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 60 - If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky.
Página 58 - 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 18 - ... noses in his hand. He teases into growling the kennelled thunder, and laughs at the shaking of its fiery chain. He dances in and out of the gates of heaven: its floor is littered with his broken fancies. He runs wild over the fields of ether. He chases the rolling world. He gets between the feet of the horses of the sun. He stands in the lap of patient Nature, and twines her loosened tresses after a hundred wilful fashions, to see how she will look nicest in his song.
Página 30 - 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 60 - Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely - flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours.
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 58 - 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 34 - Shelley's inexpressibly sad exposition of Pantheistic immortality: He is a portion of that loveliness Which once he made more lovely, etc.
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...