| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One too like thee : tameless and swift and proud. V. rter & Coates wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth ; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an... | |
| George Milner - 1881 - 370 pages
...preserver ; hear, oh hear ! I have quoted only the first sonnet-stanza ; but the last, beginning — Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! — rises to the highest pitch, and in lyric impetuosity is equal to anything that Shelley ever wrote.... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own T The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet, though in sadness.... | |
| Joseph Hughes (F.R.G.S.) - 1882 - 114 pages
...A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless and swift and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet thought in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce*My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts... | |
| 1882 - 866 pages
...intuition burst on Shelley when he exclaimed to the west wind rushing in a tempest over the Arno: — Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous...the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new hirth ! And by the incantation of this verse Scatter, as from an uncxtinguishcd hearth, Ashes and sparks,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. V, Make mo in groans did Vcruon hail : '•Heed, oh heed, our...fatal story, — I am Hosier's injured * I'orfo-B harmonics Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet, though in sadness. Bo thon, spirit fierce,... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : — tameless, arid swift, and proud. Hake me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ? The tumult of iky mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit... | |
| Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...' wild west wind ' the rushings of a mighty spirit, which is not the wind, and yet is of it, and he cries — Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is ! What if my leaves are falling like its own ! Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit; be thou me, impetuous one! From this gradually ascending scale... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own 1 The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own 1 The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.... | |
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