 Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away, and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? — Ask why the sunlight...  Minor Poems - Page 65by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...waving silver flower. THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY. A fine passage in a Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, by SHELLEY. SPIRIT of Beauty, that dost consecrate With thine...river ; Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown ; Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom; why man... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...wert a vision of delight, To bless us given; Beauty embodied to our sight, A type of heaven! DM MOIE. Spirit of beauty, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shino upon; Thy light alone, like mist o'er mountains driven, Or music by the night wind sent Through... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1866 - 390 pages
...memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. — Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine...not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river ; Such gloom ; why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope. No voice from some... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 524 pages
...memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. — Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought.or form, where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...own hnes all tliou dost thine upon Of human thought or form, where art them gone Why dost thou puss away and leave our state, • This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate 1 Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river ; Why anght should fail... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 664 pages
...HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY. 1. THE awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, though unseen, among us ; visiting This various world with as inconstant...Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows <?er yon mountain river ; Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown ; Why fear and dream and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine...river ; Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown ; Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom ; why... | |
 | X. H., Mrs. Brewster Macpherson - 1870 - 390 pages
...beauteous, but because it is God's footstool ? All things owe their loveliness to Thine indwelling. ' Spirit of Beauty that dost consecrate With Thine own hues all Thou dost shine upon.' If these are fair because God is, am I not therefore fair also ? God has loved me. God has visited... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled. Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thino own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought...not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river ; WT,y aught should fail and fade that onee is shown ; Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for itn grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then, sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song 'i Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river; Why aught should fail... | |
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