 I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with...  Class-book of English poetry - Page 301by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Henry Carrington Alexander - Clergy - 1870
...of the Lyrics, take the following speech of a cloud : 'I silently langh at my own cenotaph, And "in of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghoet from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.' And the following song by the spirits of the human... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 789 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when, {"P 1 & 2 PERCY BYSSHB SHELLEY. FANCY IN NÜBIBUS. 0, IT is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 715 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare,...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I uriio *,ud unbuild it again. TO A SKYLARK. i. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit I Bird thou never wert, That... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 449 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare,...rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from thi tomb, I arise and upbuild it again. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. The Northern Lights. TO claim the Arctic... | |
 | James Gribble - Education - 1983 - 182 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare,...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb. I arise and unbuild it again. Donald Davie speaks of this as a poem 'ruined by licentious phrasing',... | |
 | G. K. Chesterton - Literary Collections - 1986 - 551 pages
...be very dangerous to classify the metaphors of the poets. When Shelley says that the cloud will rise 'like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,' it would be quite possible to call the first a case of the coarse primitive birth-myth and the second... | |
 | S. Chandrasekhar - Science - 1990 - 180 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare....child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. The second example is from Prometheus Unbound, which has been described... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1132 pages
...call the Moon, (1. 45-46) 25 I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; 26 A X . . ram, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. (I. 81—84)... | |
 | L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - Science - 1993 - 256 pages
...corresponding growth of religious wisdom only increases our fear of death. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Like a child from the womb, Like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. Percy Shelley Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the World... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fiction - 1994 - 692 pages
...pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of heaven is bare,...their convex gleams. Build up the blue dome of air, so I silendy laugh at my 'own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb,... | |
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