 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...might I have invoked in song Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never Work,—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;...1 Work with a stout heart and resolute will! Labor PERCY BYSSIIB SHELLEY. STAXZAS WRITTEN ix DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES. THE sun is warm, the sky is clear,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 478 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth and sphered...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ! HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA. MANTIS 'EIM' 'E26AQN 'AFQNQN. TO HIS EXCELLENCY CEoip. COLOH. PRINCE ALEXANDER... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar! Putney, May i, 1839. 1 Captain Roberts watched the vessel with his glass from the top of the lighthouse... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. If Shelley had written nothing else, this poem alone would have proven his right to a place among the... | |
 | Donald Hall - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 524 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Frost's answer to that is "Earth's the right place for love." In his dealings with Shelley's poem,... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 182 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Shelley's poem is itself a portion of the dome of manycoloured glass. In the end he bequeathes it to... | |
 | Garrett Stewart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 356 pages
...surcharged climax to the whole pattern, sparked by a double grammar itself energized by phonetic ambiguity: Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven,...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. (ll. 493-95) The genealogical portmanteau that has kept Adonis and Adonai vying for lexical and semantic... | |
 | Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 312 pages
...spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. (PW, 4:236) By quoting this stanza in her note, Mary Shelley joins her voice, in a spectral temporality,... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 436 pages
..."breath . . . / Descends on" the poet, "driven" forward, as the earth and skies "are riven!" He is "borne darkly, fearfully, afar: / Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven," Adonais "Beacons." Whereas most elegists consent to restrain mournful eros or at least deflect it onto... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. grammatical object ("Descends on me") or the subject of a passive verb ("is driven," "borne darkly").... | |
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to the tempest given ; 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, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.... 
