| Theodore Ledyard Cuyler - 1873 - 236 pages
...bewitching as on the water of a placid lake on a moonlit evening ? Listening to those mellow voices, " My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of this sweet singing.' We go back to the distant past on those strains. We hear again sounds long silenced,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Diay, lost, yet unbewailing I ASIA. My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses ! Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions In musie's most serene dominions, Catching the winds that... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 776 pages
...Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...ringing. It seems to float ever, for ever, Upon that many- winding river, Between mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses ! Till, like one... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 448 pages
...lightness, Till they i'ail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing 1 ASIA. My soul is an ciichautud boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon...winds with melody are ringing. It seems to float ever, forever, Upon that many-winding river, Between mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses... | |
| 1872 - 592 pages
...Alastor. What he bids Asia utter to Panthea is his own utterance. Who more than Shelley could say : My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it ? Yes, his soul was an enchanted boat, and the Spirit of God hovered in and over it and beautiful and... | |
| Sarson C. J. Ingham - 1872 - 146 pages
...PATEBNOHTER ROW f DUBLIN STEAM PRINTING COMPANY. BLIND OLIVE; OB, DE. GEEYVILL'S INFATUATION. CHAPTER I. " My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, While all the woods with melody are ringing." SHEHiET. JIN a small, neatly -furnished parlour, in a... | |
| Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1872 - 448 pages
...The motto shows the extent of his Shelley enthusiasm at that period. It it from Prometheut Unbound. " My soul is an enchanted boat, Which like a sleeping...float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing." t In The Nation, Dec. 2oth and Dec. 27th, 1845. mentioned, notwithstanding its meagreness of detail,... | |
| Joseph O. Barrett - 1872 - 308 pages
...groves of lemons. cocoas, and palms, I coasted the Pacific, recalling the words of Shelley, — " * My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of'thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm, conducting it.' " At San Francisco,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...Erebus : ' Let no such man be trusted. VI. MUSIC.— SHELLEY. MY soul is an enchanted boat, Which, h'ke a sleeping swan doth float Upon the silver waves of...like an angel sit Beside the helm, conducting it, While all the winds wifh melody are ringing. It seems to float ever, forever Upon that many winding... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...us in true songster fashion. Do not stop yet, petite, " My soul in an enchanted boat. Which, like it sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing." But as Assunta had already left the piano to greet her guardian and his sister, he continued : " By... | |
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