 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 pages
...And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed ; I...heard— I saw them not— When musing deeply on the lot 55 Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard — I saw them not — When... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds - 1911 - 166 pages
...Intellectual Beauty" doubtless recall the premature musings of these early years : HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard — I saw them not — When... | |
 | George Ashton Beacock - 1912 - 150 pages
...suspended in its web Of many-coloured woof and shifting hues."1 Und noch einmal in der Hymn lesen wir: „While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed: I was not heard: I saw them not: When musing... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1912 - 522 pages
...knabe zeigte Shelley eine eigentümliche neigung zum unnatürlichen und schrecklichen (Symonds 16). ,,While yet a boy I sought for ghosts and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." (PW. 527, 49 ff.) Diese disposition, verbunden mit einer überaus hohen empfindlichkeit und großen... | |
 | Sarah Julie Mary Suddard - 1912 - 356 pages
...rejected with the bitterness of one who had tried to believe and been thrust back : For when yet a boy he sought for ghosts and sped Through many a listening...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.... He too had called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed. But the powers turned a deaf ear... | |
 | Sarah Julie Mary Suddard - 1912 - 324 pages
...rejected with the bitterness of one who had tried to believe and been thrust back : For when yet a boy he sought for ghosts and sped Through many a listening...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.... He too had called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed. But the powers turned a deaf ear... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1920 - 646 pages
...spirits. In the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty he writes : While yet a boy I sought for ghosts and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave and ruin And starlight...pursuing, Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. He was attached to the occult sciences and sometimes watched whole nights for ghosts. Once he described... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 pages
...their credit with me: but I could 7Cf. Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1816), lines 49-54: While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard — I saw them not — not entirely... | |
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While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not... 
