Poems, selected and arranged by S.A. Brooke |
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Página xi
... Mr. Oldham of Oriel . The negative was defended by Mr. Manning ; and on division Byron was declared the greater poet by a majority of fifty - seven . This inter- and absolutely apart from humanity . The passionate lover of PREFACE . ix.
... Mr. Oldham of Oriel . The negative was defended by Mr. Manning ; and on division Byron was declared the greater poet by a majority of fifty - seven . This inter- and absolutely apart from humanity . The passionate lover of PREFACE . ix.
Página xii
Percy Bysshe Shelley Stopford Augustus Brooke. and absolutely apart from humanity . The passionate lover of man crosses over the stage , singing of man- kind , and disappears . The passionate poet succeeds , singing of himself , and ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Stopford Augustus Brooke. and absolutely apart from humanity . The passionate lover of man crosses over the stage , singing of man- kind , and disappears . The passionate poet succeeds , singing of himself , and ...
Página xv
... human , but it is too frequently taken out of the world of actual human life to awaken practical emotion . Were the scenery of the poem all ideal , or all real , we should not be so troubled while we read . Were the poem supremely ...
... human , but it is too frequently taken out of the world of actual human life to awaken practical emotion . Were the scenery of the poem all ideal , or all real , we should not be so troubled while we read . Were the poem supremely ...
Página xvi
... humanity was then made special in the Cenci , a tragedy wrought out with so much temperance of imagination , directness of emo- tion , and closeness of thought , that it is the strangest contrast to the Prometheus . The range of power ...
... humanity was then made special in the Cenci , a tragedy wrought out with so much temperance of imagination , directness of emo- tion , and closeness of thought , that it is the strangest contrast to the Prometheus . The range of power ...
Página xix
... humanity , and he never quite got back again . It Adonais , awakened in him not only by his sym- pathy with Keats , but also by the resemblance of the fate of Keats to his own , is almost as much concerned with Shelley as with its ...
... humanity , and he never quite got back again . It Adonais , awakened in him not only by his sym- pathy with Keats , but also by the resemblance of the fate of Keats to his own , is almost as much concerned with Shelley as with its ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adonais aërial Alastor ANTISTROPHE Apennine azure beams beautiful beneath bird blue bowers breath bright calm cave caverns clouds cold Dæmons dark dead death deep delight DEMOGORGON dreams earth eternal Euganean Hills eyes faint fear fire fled float flowers forest gaze gentle golden grave green grey heart heaven hope human isles kiss leaves light lips living lone long past Maddalo mighty mist moon mountains Nature never night nursling o'er ocean odour OZYMANDIAS pale pale flowers Pantheism passion poem poet poetry Prometheus Unbound rain Revolt of Islam round SEMICHORUS Sensitive Plant shadow shadows watch shattered visage Shelley Shelley's sleep smile snow soft song soul sound spirit splendour stars storm stream sweet swift tears tempest thee thine things thou art thought thro tower vapours veil voice wandering waves weep Whilst wild wind wind-flowers wingèd wings woods
Pasajes populares
Página 279 - 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! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth...
Página 65 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle...
Página 278 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Página 102 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire...
Página 294 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell...
Página 121 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing...
Página 277 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Página 302 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
Página 5 - On a poet's lips I slept, Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept. Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Página 120 - Life of Life, thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.