TO THE MOON ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,— And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy... Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 261by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1870 - 462 pages
...Tom was happy and warm : So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. William Blake. ccxxx1x TO THE MOON; Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing...different birth,— And ever changing, like a joyless eye 5 That finds no object worth its constancy? CCXL SONG. Percy Bysshe Shelley. If I had thought thou... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...Wordsworth took the same two lines as the commencement of another nearly as beautiful. Shelley asks of the moon ' Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth?' l. 76. Cf. 'sullen bell' (2 Henry IV. i. i) ; 'solemn curfew' (Tempest, v. 1). l. 78. removed was formerly... | |
| George William Cox - 1870 - 470 pages
...over his body, Argos is the star-illumined sky watching over the moon as she wanders Pale for very weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stnrs that have a different birth.1 In this aspect Argos appears in the Cretan myth as Asterion, or... | |
| Camille Flammarion - 1871 - 302 pages
...Why deprived of movement and life ? This is the question asked by the poet Shelley :— 'Art tliou pale for weariness, Of climbing heaven and gazing...joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy ?' Now that I have pointed out how the Moon is an inhospitable world, poor and destitute of nature's... | |
| Augustus Samuel Wilkins - 1871 - 236 pages
...from the kingdoms of Damascus and Nineveh, bitterly hostile to each 1 Compare the lines of Shelley — Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and...companionless Among the stars that have a different birth ? other, but each alternately laying a heavy hand of oppression on the kingdoms of Israel. The only... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...ourselves, must fade and perish ; Such is our rude mortal lot — Love itself would, did they not. TO THE MOON. ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering compauionless Among the stars that have a differen birth,—- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...thousand voices, praises God. TO THE MOON.—Sfolley. ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heavens, and gazing on the earth. Wandering Companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy ? SPRING.—Miss... | |
| Country life - 1873 - 160 pages
...lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness ? Sir Philip Sidney. TO THE MOON! ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing...joyless eye, That finds no object worth its constancy ? P. /,'. Shelley. WINTER. THOU hast thy beauties : sterner ones, I own, Than those of thy precursors... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1873 - 472 pages
...sad steps, O Moon, thou climb*st the sky,— How silently and with how wan a face !"—WOBDSWOKTH. "Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and...joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy ?"—SHELLS WITH THREE LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUTHERFURD (ENLARGED BY BROTHERS) AND MANY PLATES, CHARTS,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...dawning is cast, — And tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night In the van of the morning light. TO THE MOON. ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing...Among the stars that have a different birth,— And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy I MISCELLANEOUS277 SUMMER... | |
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