 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1877 - 514 pages
...824 et se<?.),—said to have been called forth by the tragic end of an unknown adorer of the poet's. I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide...flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured 1 motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. m. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 104 pages
...floor With green and purple, sea- weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...floor AVith green and purple sea- weeds strewn ; I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone...— How sweet did any heart now share in my emotion !" — SHELLEY. The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; While hawthorn, and the pastoral... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry (English). - 1878 - 632 pages
...floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown j I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved, in star-showers thrown. I sit upon the sands alone....How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion! 3. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 442 pages
...untrampled floor With green and purple seaweed strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean ni. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing... | |
 | Daniel Hack Tuke - Insanity - 1878 - 282 pages
...state of mind depicted by Shelley in the depressing lines :— " Alas ! I have nor life nor breath, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in contemplation found." No one can speak more feelingly of the pressure of the age in which we live than... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Future punishment - 1878 - 300 pages
...frosty world ? How many might almost sing with the poet as he sat in deep dejection on the shore, " Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around ; Jfor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in contemplation found ; ***** Others there are whom... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1879 - 660 pages
...floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved, in star-showers thrown. I sit upon the sands alone....How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion! 3. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing... | |
 | 1879 - 884 pages
...and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star- showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone ; The lightning...tone Arises from its measured motion. How sweet ! did iuiy heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 390 pages
...life. Shelley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples,— " Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around." And he indicates in the 'Alastor' that the utmost he hoped to realise was— " Not sobs nor groans,... | |
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The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's. I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the... 
