 I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown; I sit upon the sands alone; The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises...  Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 162by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Foster Barham - Reformation - 1843 - 304 pages
...same transcendant serenity appears likewise in the character of Socrates — ' That content, excelling wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned.' To this condition the noblest souls aspire with ceaseless and anxious labour ; they aspire to stand... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, duces more, too weak to bear The insupportable fatigue of thought, And swallowing therefore j , Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live,... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...rounded wift a sleep,— is written in a frame of mind far different from that In which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair Itself is mild. Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...rounded with a sleep,— is written In a frame of mind far different from that in which Shelley wrote: Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found . . . Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...described as " cheerful ; " I do not know on whose account this hypocrisy is maintained. Alas ! we have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. But it is not to be wondered at that others should take a brighter view of our condition. Just (again)... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arise« $ I Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content, surpassing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Other I see whom these... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1845 - 632 pages
...life. Slielley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor1 that the utmost he hoped to realize was — ' Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | 1845 - 606 pages
...life. Shelley tells us of himself, in those beautiful Verses written, in Dejection, near Naples, — ' Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around.' And he indicates in the ' Alastor' that the utmost he hoped to realize was — 1 Not sobs nor groans,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet!...surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
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