 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 258 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,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 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...speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art anil eloquence. And all the shows o' the world are frail iiinl vain To weep a loss that turns their... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...this simple strain, Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which is no more, or painting's X Q <>' the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe too "... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 402 pages
...lineaments, Worn by the senseless wind, shall live alone In the frail pauses of this simple strain, 1624 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,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 372 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...cold powers. Art and eloquence, 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... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...any existence beyond the grave, or for the mourner any guarantee of literary attention for his pains: Let not high verse, mourning the memory Of that which...cold powers. Art and eloquence, And all the shows of the world are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. In fact, like Blake's... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 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...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.... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 297 pages
...'prized memorial,' Wordsworth had reduced to a parody the pastoral elegy he thought he was writing. 'Let not high verse, mourning the memory / Of that which is no more,' Shelley concludes his non-elegy on the death of Wordsworth in The Excursion, 'or painting's woe / Or... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1104 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." The lesson is one to learn in silence, and the book one to close with a sorrowful but reverent sympathy... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 628 pages
...English poetry, carrying the burden of harmonies yet undreamed-of, songs strangely beautiful: . . . Art and eloquence, 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,... | |
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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... 
