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" A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power Girt round with weakness ; it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak... "
The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer - Page 62
1855
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Prose

John Keats - Poets, English - 1889 - 518 pages
...along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII. A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation...lamp, a falling shower, /\ A breaking billow ;— even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly : on a cheek...
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Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pages
...thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. 32A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation...superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, 5 A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering jlower The killing...
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Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pages
...thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. 32A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation...superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, 5 A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3, Part 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 246 pages
...thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. xxxn A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...men, and emphasizes only their symbolic aspect. Amid the others, comes Shelley himself: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. 32 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - 280 A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round...dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brighdy: on a cheek...
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Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art

Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...abstractions that make the Spenserian stanza an appropriate vehicle for the conveyance of lament: A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — 280 A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...lamp, a falling shower. A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek...
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Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

Kim Wheatley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...vagaries of that style and thus to check the breaking down of the boundaries around the self: A pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...survived, though in a concealed form. What this might mean is made clearer by the following lines: A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? (28i-86) The Love survives, but "masked" in its desolation, which...
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