 I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with...  The Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 4901832Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die....Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tombi I arise and unbuild it again. TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,... | |
 | Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870 - 514 pages
...human being can comprehend. As a specimen of the Lyrics, take the following speech of a cloud : 4 1 silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the...caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghoet from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.' And the following song by the spirits of the human... | |
 | Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870 - 674 pages
...of the Lyrics, take the following speech of a cloud : 'I silently langh at my own cenotaph, And "in of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghoet from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.' And the following song by the spirits of the human... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...below. VL I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky : I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die....a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I uriio *,ud unbuild it again. TO A SKYLARK. i. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit I Bird thou never wert,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...below. I am the daughter of the earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores ullen Bryant I rise and upbuild it again. PERCY BYSSHB SHELLEY. FANCY IN NÜBIBUS. 0, IT is pleasant, with a heart... | |
 | James Gribble - 1983 - 196 pages
...Cloud'. I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die....a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb. I arise and unbuild it again. Donald Davie speaks of this as a poem 'ruined by licentious phrasing',... | |
 | G. K. Chesterton - 1986 - 560 pages
...be very dangerous to classify the metaphors of the poets. When Shelley says that the cloud will rise 'like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,' it would be quite possible to call the first a case of the coarse primitive birth-myth and the second... | |
 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1990 - 185 pages
...adventure": I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die....a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. The second example is from Prometheus Unbound, which has been described... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...call the Moon, (1. 45-46) 25 I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; 26 A X . . ram, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. (I. 81—84)... | |
 | L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - 1993 - 264 pages
...corresponding growth of religious wisdom only increases our fear of death. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Like a child from the womb, Like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. Percy Shelley Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the... | |
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