 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 Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 413by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...of cold mortahty. The breath whose might I have invoked in so .g Descends on me ; my spirit's bnrk is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE CRUCIFIXION. PB SRELLEV. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembinii I ASKED the Heavens;—" What... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...author: "The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Par from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.1* Shelley. III. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...things. ii. The last lines of the Adonais ! how singularly do they adumbrate the fate of their author: " The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.4 Shelley. m. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...propheey the last stanza of the" Adonais!" The breath, whoso might I have invoked in song Deseends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore,...veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Deaeons from the abode where the Eternal are. * Captain Roberts watehed the vessel with his glass from... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...has remarked — with words almost prophetic of his own approaching fate. "The breath, whose might 1 have invoked in song, Descends on me : my spirit's...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." At no period of Shelley's life did he enjoy good health ; and v.'hen he and Byron lived in the same... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...of where it had been* — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the " Adonaial" Tho breath, whose might I have invoked in song. Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal arc. * Captain Roberts watched the vessel with his glas* from the top of the light-house of Leghorn,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...the last stanza of the Adonais ? — ' The breath, whose might I have invoiced in song, Descends upon me : my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.'" LORD BYRON. IN The Rural Life of England I have already recorded my visits to two of the most interesting... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...Death can join together. That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all tilings work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. This long but beautiful extract from one of Shelley's latest poems shows how incorrect it is to attribute... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...concluding lines remarkably foreshadow Shelley's approaching fate. " The breath whose might I have evok'd in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." The last poem Shelley wrote was mostly composed in the fatal boat in which he perished ; it was called... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...of The fire for which all thirst, now beams or me, Consuming the last clouds of r.nld mortality. LV. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. TO NIGHT. SHIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where... | |
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