| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 oldal
...stanza reaches a swell and grandeur, perhaps unequalled in any passage in which it has ever been used. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven The soul of Adonais,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 oldal
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais,... | |
| 1861 - 336 oldal
...remained of where it had been,—who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...; 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,... | |
| T. C. Henley - 1861 - 160 oldal
...touchingly commemorates the death of his friend Keats, leaves the subject in the following verse : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails are never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 oldal
...Shelley transports him into regions far beyond the reach of the perturbations of a common grief: — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and... | |
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 oldal
...of where it had been, — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? — , ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, ....given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven t I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The aoul of... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 oldal
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...; 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,... | |
| 1855 - 394 oldal
...driven over the sea. It enveloped them and several larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...; 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,... | |
| 1866 - 780 oldal
...lines, which are g till more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidente of his own death : . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost... | |
| George Herbert - 1866 - 722 oldal
...lines, which are still more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidents of his own death : . . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven! lam borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil... | |
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