 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) - Pagina 463door John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1905 - 72 pagina’s
...the true meaning of the season and all seasons with the spirit which should respond in humanity : — "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! 591994 B "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered... | |
 | Alfred Biese - 1905 - 398 pagina’s
...! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee, tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is ; What if...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit. Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like withered leaves,... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pagina’s
...its sky." Similarly, the final stanza of Shelley's greatest ode modulates to "a deep, autumnal tone": Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | Jeffrey Cane Robinson - 1987 - 228 pagina’s
...leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud....tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | Barbara Johnson - 1989 - 252 pagina’s
...leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud....tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | William St Clair - 1991 - 612 pagina’s
...generation. A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pagina’s
...bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud 5 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 pagina’s
...Romantic in straining to tear down the boundary between the poet's emotions and the forces of nature: Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pagina’s
...deformity; Restore thine image so much, by thy grace, That Thou may'st know me, and I'll turn my face. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Figures of Syntactic Deviation The general term for deviation... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my...tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves... | |
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