| Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pàgines
...which follows that short gleam of healthy feeling, and coming to himself — — fame nor power, nor love, nor leisure, Others I see whom these surround,...pleasure, To me that cup has been dealt in another measure ! Poor Shelley! As if the peace within, and the calm around, and the content surpassing wealth, were... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pàgines
...lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! (Ode to the West Wind) I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear. (Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples) A widow... | |
| Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pàgines
...the varieties of despair they portray, and "Stanzas" remains more nearly cliched. Consider the lines: Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...could lie down like a tired child And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear Till Death like Sleep might steal on me, And I might... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pàgines
...wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child,... | |
| Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - 1931 - 352 pàgines
...care [m] Shelley's "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples" (published 1824) contains the lines: I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have born and yet must bear, (lines 30-32) / will go up these steps into the gallery... | |
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