 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1904 - 148 páginas
...touches, it is an emotion, like all our best emotions, that is touched with the pain of coming defeat. Ah sister ! Desolation is a delicate thing : It walks not on the earth, it floats not on the air, 111 But treads with killing footstep, and fans with silent wing, The tender hopes which in their hearts... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1905 - 460 páginas
...thou, O King of sadness, Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness. Sixth Spirit. Ah, sister ! Desolation is a delicate thing : It walks...the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with killing footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1905 - 978 páginas
...unGleamed in the night. I wandered o'er, till thou, 0 King of sadness. 770 Sixth Spmt. Ah, sister I Desolation is a delicate thing: It walks not on the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with lulling footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 páginas
...unupbraiding, Gleamed in the night. I wandered o'er, till thou, 0 King of sadness, 770 Sixth Spirit. Ah, sister ! Desolation is a delicate thing : It walks...the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with lulling footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 páginas
...thou, O King of sadness, Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness. Sixth Spirit yery_ thing almost Which is Nature's, killing footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 712 páginas
...sadness, 77o Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness. SIXTH SPIRIT Ah, sister I Desolation is a delicate thing: It walks not on the...earth, "it floats not on the air, But treads with killing footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1922 - 330 páginas
...spirit) in a metre which is basically a simple, even a common one, as common as Christy Minstrelsy. Ah, sister! Desolation is a delicate thing: It walks...the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with lulling footstep and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 436 páginas
...thou, O King of sadness, Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness. SIXTH SPIRIT Ah, sister ! Desolation is a delicate thing: It walks...the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with lulling footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 páginas
...thou, O King of sadness, 770 Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness. Sixth Spirit Ah, sister! Desolation is a delicate thing: It walks...the earth, it floats not on the air, But treads with killing footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest... | |
 | Lascelles Abercrombie - 1923 - 166 páginas
...order to obtain the full spacing of the pattern. Thus the lines (Shelley, Prometheus Unbound : Act I), Ah, sister, desolation is a delicate thing : It walks not on the earth, it floats not on the air, would, quoted apart from their context, seem to be six-foot lines ; but actually they are seven-foot... | |
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But treads with silent footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest bear; Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above. And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions... 
