 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 pages
...is surely a disappointment apart from the too early death. It is not a case for elaborate laments. Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers.2 The lesson is one to learn in silence, and the book one to close with a sorrowful but reverent... | |
 | William Winter - 1890 - 86 pages
...gentle, and the beautiful, The child of grace and genius .... " Art and eloquence And all the shows of the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their light to shade." — SHELLEY'S ALASTOR. To this library Gilbert presented the works of Sir Walter Scott, in twenty-four... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English literature - 1892 - 542 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone In the frail pauses of this simple strain, Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe " too deep for tears," when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 690 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone ros In the frail pauses of this simple strain, Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, no And all the shews o' the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 292 pages
...painting's woe Or sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, 710 And all the shows o' the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe too ' deep for tears,' when all <*- ", Is reft at once, when some surpassing... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone In the frail pauses of this simple strain, Let not high verse mourning the memory Of that which...are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe 'too deep for tears' when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing Spirit,... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...absorption into the mystery of the unknown, we might find it in the last lines of his own Alastor:— Art and eloquence, And all the shows o* the world,...To weep a loss that turns their light to shade. It ia a woo " too deep for tears," when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing spirit, Whose light... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1894 - 1044 pages
...that no tongue can adequately describe, "for art and eloquence, And all the shows o' the world nre frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their light to shade." But let us mark the uniformity even of the arts employed to further the unholy project. Pierre Flotte,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1898 - 492 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone 7°5 In the frail pauses of this simple strain, Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, 7>° And all the shows o' the world are frail and vain . To weep a loss that turns their lights to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1898 - 492 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone 7°5 In the frail pauses of this simple strain, Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, 710 And all the shows o' the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade.... | |
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And all the shows o' the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe too deep for tears, when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing Spirit, Whose light adorned the world around it, leaves Those who remain... 
