...Adonais " as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — uThe breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from shore, far from the trembling throng-, Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth...

...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of...

...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of...

...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of...

...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose saila were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly,...

...stanza reaches a swell and grandeur, perhaps unequalled in any passage in which it has ever been used. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven The soul of Adonais,...

...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of...

...remained of where it had been,—who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of...

...touchingly commemorates the death of his friend Keats, leaves the subject in the following verse : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails are never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,...

...Shelley transports him into regions far beyond the reach of the perturbations of a common grief: — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and...