 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bound One, too, like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud ! Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is, — What...my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of its mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1884 - 304 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud. 5. 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 - 1884 - 654 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 I The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thec : tameless, and swift, and proud. V. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit tieree, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 470 pages
...my sore need. Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! v. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnaj tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...! A heavy weight of hours has chained mid 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 liki- its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...which was to him in place of God, is expressed in the Ode to the West Wind, his most perfect poem: " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is ; What if...Spirit fierce, My spirit ! be thou me, impetuous one !" In the lyrical pieces already mentioned, together with Adonais, the lines Written in the Euganean... | |
 | 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 tliou, spirit tierce, My spirit; be thou me, impetuous one! From this gradually ascending scale... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1886 - 234 pages
...spirit, to become himself, that he may awake the world and bless it with hope and prophecy of good. Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth ...... ... Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy. In this at least Shelley,... | |
 | Edith Matilda Thomas - 1886 - 318 pages
...just like the race of leaves." But it is good to hear Shelley's invocation of the "West Wind : — " Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth." The use of the leaves is not ended when they drop from the boughs. They go to make new wood -mold,... | |
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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one... 
