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" While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. "
The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander - Page 8
by Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : I call'd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not. When...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight my brothers on the mountains. Who shall share the wine's sweet fountam. Bri : I calTd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : 1 saw them not When musing...
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The Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - Poets, English - 1833 - 200 pages
...life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid...
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Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid...
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The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 2

Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...a boy I sought for Ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." This age is incredulous ; a powerful scepticism prevails, and people will not be convinced of the existence...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' n,ai,ya listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not : When musing...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps, pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. "When musing deeply on the lot of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that...
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National: A Library for the People, Issues 1-26

1839 - 446 pages
...a boy, I sought lor ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : I cull'd on puisonous names with which our youth is fed: I was not heard ; I saw them not. When mubing...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listeningchamber,eave,and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth I was not heard, I saw them not ; [is fed : When musing...
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Rural Sketches

Thomas Miller - Country life - 1839 - 390 pages
...boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And star-light wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : I called on poisonous names, with which our youth is fed. I was not heard : I saw them not. SHELLEY....
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