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" The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully,... "
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Page 523
by William Howitt - 1856
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Essays in Biography and Criticism, Volume 1

Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...passage in which it has ever been used. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the...
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Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Hampshire and the ...

England, South East - 1861 - 336 pages
...prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me : my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, " Beacons from...
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A Handful of Paper Shavings

T. C. Henley - 1861 - 160 pages
...the subject in the following verse : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails are never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never...skies are riven ; I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...last stanza of the Adonais ? — , ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, . Descends on me : my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven t I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The aoul of...
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Essays and poems, selected from the literary remains of F. Hinde

Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from...
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The British Poets, Volume 4

1855 - 394 pages
...vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore,...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the...
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Dublin University Magazine

George Herbert - 1866 - 722 pages
...lines, which are still more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidents of his own death : . . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven! lam borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and ..., Volume 67; Volume 69

1866 - 780 pages
...lines, which are g till more striking, and seem to sketch the very incidente of his own death : . . "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 99

England - 1866 - 854 pages
...its deep blue waves, of tho destined hour, so swiftly on the wing, when his spirit's bark would be driven " Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng. Whose sails are never to the tempest given ;" and through the massy earth and sphered skies ho would be borne darkly,...
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