...of the poetic text: The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. (487-95) In the idiom of the poem, the "spirit's bark" is now the poet's body and now the poem. It...

...this last verse he speaks of his 'spirit's bark' (boat) being driven 'far from the shore': I am born darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. Shelley's early outlook as a firebrand atheist and revolutionary was gradually tempered by personal...

...light. It is a convincement shared by all Friends: . . . burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. • 4* The Significance of Jesus I myself am the way, and the truth, and the life. —John 14:6 t burgeoning...

...could scarcely bring myself to let them go." As Shelley himself had written at the close of Adonais, "The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! / I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar." Shelley, physically and emotionally, may have seemed a blithe spirit, but he was also a determined...