Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue... Shelley and His Writings - Page 242by Charles S. Middleton - 1858Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....head was bound with pansies over-blown, And faded violet', white, and pied, r.nd blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...sun smiles brightly : on a cheek The life can bum in blood, even while the heart may break. xxxni. His head was bound with pansies over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
| 1876 - 564 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
| Johannes Scherr - 1875 - 900 pages
...we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown And faded violets, white and pied and blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Hound whose rude shaft dark ivy-ti esses grew Yet dripping... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1875 - 468 pages
...bleak. Bis head was bound with panxies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noon-day dew, Vibrated as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand... | |
| 1875 - 844 pages
...well his strength as the poet, his weakness as a man, as he has done in these touching lines : — His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
| 1875 - 864 pages
...— "His head was bound with pansics overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivytresses grow Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Yibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1876 - 336 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude sheft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1877 - 336 pages
...falling shower, A breaking billow ;— even while we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower " His head was bound with pansies, over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude sheft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly : on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white and pied and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Bound whose rude shaft dark ivy -tresses grew Yet dripping... | |
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