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" The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene ravens, clamorous o'er the dead; The vultures to the conqueror's banner true Who feed where Desolation first has fed, And whose wings rain contagion... "
The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume - Page 15
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
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The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 5

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 434 pages
...have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. XXVIII. " The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...bow, The Pythian of the age one arrow sped And smiled I — The spoilers tempt no second blow, They fawn on the proud feet that spurn them lying low. XXIX....
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Forms of English Poetry

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 380 pages
...lament of the goddess Urania fills four stanzas, and in it Shelley castigates the reviewers as : — The herded wolves, bold only to pursue, The obscene...banner true, Who feed where Desolation first has fed." After Urania ceases the poets come : — Thus ceased she ; and the mountain shepherds came, Their garlands...
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Adonais, an elegy on the death of John Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 42 pages
...should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. 28. " The herded wolves, bold only to pursue ; The obscene...wings rain contagion ; — how they fled, When like Apollo7 from his golden bow, The Pythian of the age one arrow sped, And smiled ! — The spoilers tempt...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of ...

Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...The following stanza from Shelley's "Adonais" alludes to Byron's early quarrel with the reviewers: "The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...conqueror's banner true, Who feed where Desolation first has led, And whose wings rain contagion : how they fled, When like Apollo, from his golden bow, The Pythian...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...bays. The following stanza from Shelley's Adonais alludes to Byron's early quarrel with the reviewers: The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...They fawn on the proud feet that spurn them as they go. PYRAMUS AND THISBE Pyramus was the handsomest youth and Thisbe the fairest maiden in all Babylonia,...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. 28 'The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...banner true Who feed where Desolation first has fed, When like Apollo, from his golden bow, The Pythian of the age261 one arrow sped 250 And smiled! - The...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. XXVIII "The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...his golden bow The Pythian of the age one arrow sped 250 And smiled! — The spoilers tempt no second blow, They fawn on the proud feet that spum them lying...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...should have filled its crescent sphere,0 The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. 28 'The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene...like Apollo, from his golden bow The Pythian of the age0 one arrow sped unpastured: unfed, hungry (the dragon personifies the critics; Shelley had advised...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...only to pursue; The obscene ravens, clamorous o'er the dead; The vultures to the conqueror's hanner true Who feed where Desolation first has fed. And...like Apollo, from his golden bow The Pythian of the age0 one arrow sped unpastured: unfed. hungry the dragon personifies the eritics: Shelley had advised...
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