Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. Select Poems of Shelley - Page 164by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...heaven, As then, when to onturip thy skiey speed Scarce seem'da vision ; I would ne'er have striven t for threescore 1 fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One loo like... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...too well, and I repeat them to myself almost in my sleep—he is addressing the wind, and says ' O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life—I bleed; A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee, tameless, and swift,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...thy skiey speed Scarce seem'da vision ; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in ray sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One too like thee : tameless, and swift,... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...too well, and I repeat them to myself almost in iny sleep — he is addressing the wind, and says ' O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ; I fall upon the thorns of life — I bleed ; A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee, tameless, and swift,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...speed Scarce seem'da vision ; I would ne'er liave striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore Deed. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud .' I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One too like ihee ; tameless, and swift,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...Searee seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 3h ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless, and swift,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh !...wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! Л heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed Oue too like thee : tameless, and swift,... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I- would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh !...wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too, like thee : tameless, and swift,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...•*arce seem'da vision; I would ne'er have striven s thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Uh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One loo like thee: tameless, and swift, and... | |
| John Kitto - 1849 - 432 pages
...congenial twilight of their library, whose over-educated susceptibilities would prompt the strain — ' O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed !' these would have utterly failed for the work John Wesley wanted them to do. Gentlemen would... | |
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