 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. XXXII. A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love...can burn in blood even while the heart may break. XXXIII. His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white and pied and blue ; And... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. XXXII. A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love...can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. XXXIII. His head was bound with pansies over-blown, And faded violets, white and pied and blue ; And... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...the poets as men, and emphasizes only their symbolic aspect. Amid the others, comes Shelley himself: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in...can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. In his other stanzas of self-description here, Shelley compares himself to Actaeon, Cain, and Christ.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. 32 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - 280 A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round...broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brighdy: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. 33 His head was bound... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...personified abstractions that make the Spenserian stanza an appropriate vehicle for the conveyance of lament: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in...can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue; And a light... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — 280 A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can bum in blood, even while the heart mav break. XXXIII His head was bound with pansies overblown, And... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...survived, though in a concealed form. What this might mean is made clearer by the following lines: A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? (28i-86) The Love survives, but "masked" in its desolation, which implies that the old longings remain... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...himself. Actaeon-like: for the story of Aciaeon seech, 3, p. 4t, or Metamorphoses, book 3. A pardlike0 Spirit beautiful and swift A Love in desolation masked...weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow - even whilst we speak... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 2003 - 204 pages
...his own thoughts, along that ragged way. Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A Love in...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; - even while we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly; on a cheek... | |
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A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power Girt round with weakness ; it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow... 
