 | John V. Murphy - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 212 pages
...nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still: And when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration scarce did stir The stagnate night:—till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart. It paused—it fluttered.... | |
 | Frederic Stewart Colwell - Electronic books - 1989 - 246 pages
...dies with its setting, "when two lessening points of light alone / Gleamed through the darkness" - till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet...motionless, As their own voiceless earth and vacant air. (657-62) If the poet-quester is vouchsafed his dying moment on the Mount of Vision, the prospect is... | |
 | Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape, University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 494 pages
...black is the most reliable experiential associate of coolness, as when, in Shelley's words, [...] the heaven remained Utterly black, the murky shades involved An image, silent, cold and motionless. Reliable correlations between color and temperature appear only around adolescence, but not earlier,22... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still: And when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration...remained Utterly black, the murky shades involved 660 An image, silent, cold, and motionless, As their own voiceless earth and vacant air. Even as a... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...the tips of a waning moon. The "two lessening points of light" flicker and — till the minutes tray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart....the murky shades involved An image, silent, cold, motionless, As their own voiceless earth, and vacant air. By means of this deft maneuver, at last the... | |
 | Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still: And when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration...motionless, As their own voiceless earth and vacant air. (lines 625-30, 639-62) Through the Wordsworthian narrator, Shelley moves ineluctably from "tenderness"... | |
 | 530 pages
...pauses— it flutters- — the heavens become utterly black, and ' the murky shades infold an image that is silent, cold, and motionless as their own voiceless earth and vacant air.' The moon has borne a reputation for hig'h benig-nancy from the time when her resplendent form first... | |
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Of the vast meteor sunk, the Poet's blood, That ever beat in mystic sympathy With Nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still. And, when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration scarce... 
