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" Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! "
Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers - Page 46
edited by - 1854 - 370 pages
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The three histories

Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...sympathise too well, and I repeat them to myself almost in my sleep—he is addressing the wind, and says ' O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life—I bleed; A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee, tameless, and swift,...
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The Three Histories: The History of an Enthusiast. The History of a ...

Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...too well, and I repeat them to myself almost in iny sleep — he is addressing the wind, and says ' O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ; I fall upon the thorns of life — I bleed ; A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee, tameless, and swift, and proud.'...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...Scarce seem'da vision ; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in ray sore need. Oh ! p ! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud....
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...Searee seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 3h ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud....
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...Scarce seemed a vision, I- would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too, like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud....
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! Л heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed Oue too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud....
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The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as ..., Volume 3

John Kitto - 1849 - 432 pages
...Lord, sacrificed clerical duty to the sports of the field, prized the reputation of securing the brush before that of being a good shepherd of the sheep,...work John Wesley wanted them to do. Gentlemen would cither to a great degree have wanted those sympathies that should exist between the shepherd and the...
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Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ...

Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee ; tameless, and swift, and proud....
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The Household of Bouverie: Or, the Elixir of Gold, Volume 1

Catherine Ann Warfield - 1860 - 390 pages
...of witnesses, he gave the conclusion of the ode he had spoken of, beginning with the lines : " Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ; I fall upon the thorns of life — I bleed ! A heavy -weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee ! Tameless and swift, and proud...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Scarce seem'da vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud....
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