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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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Shelley: The Man and the Poet, Volume 2

Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 pages
...a distinct presentiment of approaching death when he penned the following, poignant lines (1822) : 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. Towards the end...
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Early Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 332 pages
...Bare woods whose branches stain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail for the world's wrong ! ' LINES. 1. 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. 2. As music and...
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Literary Essays

Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 pages
...lyrics as the great chorus in Hellas, "The world's great age begins anew " ; the wonderful wail, " When the lamp is shattered, the light in the dust lies dead " ; or the weird lines, "Written in dejection at Naples," to which Professor Dowden pays such just...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 428 pages
...is scatter'd, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remember'd not I When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon...As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the luta^ The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute — No song but sad dirges, Like the...
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Echoes of Life: Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry & Song. A Choice Collection of ...

Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O earth! — Felicia Hemans. Wben the Lamp is Shattered. WHEN the lamp is shattered. The light in the dust...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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Echoes of Life Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry and Song: A Choice Collection of ...

Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...— Alas! for love, if than wert all, And naught beyond O earth! 22G 227 IVben tbe Lamp is Shattered, WHEN the lamp is shattered. The light in the dust...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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Hocus Pocus

Jack Popplewell - 1963 - 90 pages
...not for you. BELLA. (Moving u. R. c., doubtfully.) Oh, I'll be all right. (She quotes mournfully.) "When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust...the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed." (She hesitates and gazes solemnly at Harry.) Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Simon enters R. Harry rises and...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...different birth, (1. 7 — 10) ChER. CH: FaBoCh; OBEY; OxBSP; TrGrPo When the Lamp Is Shattered 89 very sport could please. How often have I loitered...SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo 2 Sweet smiling village, love (1. 1-8) WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763) Written at an Inn at Henley 1 To thee, fair Freedom! I retire...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...it a space of watery blue, Which the keen evening star is shining through. POEMS FROM 1822 Lines \ When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies...the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. 2 As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the lute, 10 The heart's echoes render No song when...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Love Peacock) His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. 10688 'Lines: When the lamp' placed. JONG Erica 19425228 Everyone has a talent....absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. Ther 10689 'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills'(Venice) Sun-girt city, thou hast been Ocean's child,...
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