| 1993 - 412 páginas
...know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear! 4 If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than them, O uncontrollable! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 páginas
...far below The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear The sapless foliage of the ocean know 40 If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed 50 Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.... | |
| Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 páginas
...know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wandering over Heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne'er... | |
| Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 páginas
...Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear! IV If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scare seemed a vision;... | |
| Stephan Jaeger, Stefan Willer - 2000 - 260 páginas
...(40) Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fcar, And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear! IV If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thec; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share (45) The impulse of thy strength, only less free... | |
| Nicola Bown - 2001 - 264 páginas
...verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. If I were a dead leal thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly...heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemd a vision.21 The wind here not only looks down on the earth, but has a new and intimate view of... | |
| Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 páginas
...in "Ode to the West Wind." "If I were a dead leaf thou mightiest bear," cries Shelley to the wind; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to...strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable! This, too, is an imaginary flirtation with destructive forces that promise to extend beyond the point... | |
| Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 páginas
...know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: O, hear! IV If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh! lift me as wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the... | |
| Bernadette Malinowski - 2002 - 468 páginas
...indirekten Vergleiche zwischen Natur und Mensch führen dort zu einer ganz expliziten Unterscheidung: If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear, If I were a swift...impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontroulable! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,... | |
| W.T. Jones - 1973 - 320 páginas
...very different mood, certainly, but with the same sense of self-transcendence and submergence: If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift...thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impuke of thy strength . . . Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf/ a cloud! Make me thy lyre . . . Be thou,... | |
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