WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendour... The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 308by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840Full view - About this book
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...the sphere of our sorrow ? LINES. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled, Love first leaves the well-built nest, The weak one is singled To endure... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 460 pages
...sphere of our sorrow ? 1821. LINES. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled Love first leaves the well-built nest, The weak one is singled To endure... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 426 pages
...sphere of our sorrow ? 1821. LINES. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled Love first leaves the well-built nest, The weak one is singled To endure... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 660 pages
...devotion With which I worship thine. LINES. WHEN the lamp is shattered TTv; light in the dust lies dead— When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered...mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled Love first leaves the well-built neot, The weak one is singled To endure... | |
| 1880 - 786 pages
...are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes...mournful surges . That ring the dead seaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled, Love first leaves the well-built nest; The weak one Is singled To endure... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...MOORE. WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED. WHKX the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead ; When splendor Survive not the lamp and the Inte, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...broken, Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. II. As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the...is mute : — No song but sad dirges, Like the wind in a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. IIL When hearts have once... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...Sweet notes are remembered not ; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. (1822.) II. As music and splendour Survive not the lamp and the...is mute : — No song but sad dirges, Like the wind in a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. III. When hearts have once... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Literature - 1880 - 434 pages
...thy flight ! " and sometimes, " When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead ; When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed...the lips have spoken. Loved accents are soon forgot ; " but whether forward or backward gazing, the attitude of unsatisfied desire is always the same,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 452 pages
...not to break My chain." LINES. i. WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. tL The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute : — No song but sad dirges, Like the... | |
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