She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A power that from its objects scarcely drew One impulse of her being — in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew Which wanders through the waste air's pathless blue To nourish some... Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3111886Full view - About this book
| 1918 - 596 pages
...twentieth century to that sweet figure of the thirteenth century, described so well by Shelley: « In his lightness * Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew « Which wanders through the waste air's pathte.t.4 blue « To nourish some far desert » . P. Albert O'Brien, OFM Nunes, José Joaquiin. —... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1922 - 472 pages
...to interpret his vision of a nobler world. No poet ever imagined a lovelier creature than Cythna : She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A...from its objects scarcely drew One impulse of her being—in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew Which wanders through the waste... | |
| John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1923 - 578 pages
...unchanged within. His ideal creations have glorified or rarified bodies, from Queen Mab to Cythna, who Moved upon this earth a shape of brightness A power...from its objects scarcely drew One impulse of her Iteing — in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud ot morning dew. The radiance of the Vision's... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1915 - 278 pages
...overflow with tears, or converse fraught With passion o'er their depths its fleeting light had wrought. She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A power, that from its objects scarcely drew 20 One impulse of her being — in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew, Which... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1926 - 758 pages
...earth a shape of brightness, A power that from its objects scarcely drew One impulse of her being—in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning...did seem, Beside me, gathering beauty as she grew, Which walks, when tempest sleeps, the wave of life's dark stream. XXIV As mine own shadow was this... | |
| Social case work - 1926 - 708 pages
...St. Francis in his Italy in the 13th Century offers a reason for such persistent interest : In his lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning...waste air's pathless blue, To nourish some far desert. Our Sir Charles S. Loch said of St. Francis1 that he sought reality in life and was thereby enabled... | |
| Albert Mordell - Criticism - 1926 - 314 pages
...overflow with tears, or converse fraught With passion o'er their depths its fleeting light had wrought. She moved upon this earth, a shape of brightness, A power, that from its object scarcely drew One impulse of her being — in her lightness Most like some radiant cloud of... | |
| Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 544 pages
...Walks in BeatAty, and Wordsworth's Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower, Cythna is further described: She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A...like some radiant cloud of morning dew, Which wanders thro' the wide air's pathless blue, To nourish some far desart: she did seem Beside me, gathering beauty... | |
| Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 562 pages
...in Beatify, and Wordsworth's Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower , Cythna is further described: She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A...like some radiant cloud of morning dew, Which wanders thro' the wide air's pathless blue, To nourish some far desart: she did seem Beside me, gathering beauty... | |
| Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...spiritual being she is the warring spirit of Freedom, flitting ahead of humanity towards happiness : She moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, A...lightness Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew, 291 Which wanders through the waste air's pathless blue, To nourish some far desert : she did seem... | |
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