...its own! The tomult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, automnal tone. Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be...dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves. . . . The European romantics of the nineteenth century are drawn to a pantheistic fusion between the...

...Slightly modifying Shelly's lines in his Ode to the West Wind, the wielder of the mantra would say, And by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my weapons upon mine enemies. Indeed, in ancient lore the following mantra was to be uttered several thousand...

...universal power will effect a rebirth among mankind as inevitably as the seasons follow one another: Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! Oh wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?28 John Keats is not a poet whom many have thought...

...West Wind! Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own . . . Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! . . . Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can...

...autumnal tone, (60) Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me impctuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like...quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this versc, (65) Scatter, äs from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be...

..."Ode to the West Wind," nineteenth-century Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley shouts at the west wind, Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous...one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like wither'd leaves, to quicken new birth. His wind was not just spititus; it was a renewing spirit, a...

...its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be...the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an extinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth...

...its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be...birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, äs from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened...

...long after he wrote Alastor. Compare the petitions on which the Ode to the West Wind (1820) closes. Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! (11. 63-67) 71. Sperry, Shelley's Major Verse, 35. 72. The reference to "falling spear-grass" may be...

...feeling also will give rise to hope and joy. The lines I memorized as a teenager often came to my rescue: Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantations of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth, ashes and sparks, my words among...