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" WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 16
1824
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A Thousand and One Gems of English and American Poetry from Chaucer to ...

Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pages
...are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me. Percy Bysshe Shelley, WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies...spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...bitter prophecy! The world is weary of the past, — Oh might it die or rest at last! (1822.) LINES. When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies...rainbow's glory is shed ; When the lute is broken, Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. II. As music and...
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Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 440 pages
...kill me, Jane : And as I must on earth abide Awhile, yet tempt me not to break My chain." LINES. I. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies...the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. n. As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 1

1885 - 544 pages
...dear, But men are such conceited things They need a lesson once a year." ANON. THE FLIGHT OF LOVE. WHEN the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust...the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not ; AVhen the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive not the...
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The World of Proverb and Parable: With Illustrations from History, Biography ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 pages
...itself up to the treason of doubt. Few words have a note of deeper despair than these of Shelley : — " When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust...rainbow's glory is shed ; When the lute is broken, Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. " As music and...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text ..., Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 470 pages
...kill me, Jane : And, as I must on earth abide Awhile, yet tempt me not to break My chain." LINES. I. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies...rainbow's glory is shed ; When the lute is broken, Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. II. As music and...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

1885 - 668 pages
...cloud is scatter'd, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remember'd not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...OF LOVE. WHEN the lamp is shatter'd The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattcr'd, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remember'd not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents" are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive...
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The Religious Aspect of Philosophy: A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and ...

Josiah Royce - 1885 - 526 pages
...previous emotion renders this consciousness of the hollowness of emotion the more insupportable : — " When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead." The brighter the lamp, the deeper the darkness that follows its breaking. The romantic despair thus...
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Essays on Poetry and Poets

Roden Noel - 1886 - 378 pages
...misery of the world. The delicate evanescent grace of them is like nothing else in literature : — "When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust...rainbow's glory is shed ; When the lute is broken, Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. "As music and...
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