Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. We decay... The Living Age - Page 731909Full view - About this book
| John Keats - 1883 - 516 pages
...and change, unquenchably the same, Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame. XXXIX. Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance,... | |
| Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...MACDONALD. Thy grave with rising flowers be dressed, And the green turf lie lightly on thy heart. POPE. Peace ! Peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep. He hath awakened from the dream of life. PB SHELLEY. November 12. Of all her sex most excellent. BUTLER'S Do the work that's nearest, Though... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's — oh that it should be so ! Peace, Veace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 518 pages
...; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. XLI. He lives, he wakes — 'tis Death is dead, not he ; Mourn not for Adonais. — Thou young Dawn Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee The spirit thou lamentest... | |
| William Earl Dodge - 1884 - 74 pages
...sorrow come readily to one's mind on an occasion like this, but we can only utter the poet's words : " Peace ! peace ! he is not dead ; he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life." To those of us who have had the advantage of knowing Earl Dodge, and can look back to years of joyous,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pages
...but the effect is momentary, and he soon relapses into the harshness of the original strain : — ' Peace, peace ! he is not dead — he doth not sleep, — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance... | |
| F. L. Clarke - 1884 - 168 pages
...nation and of all the world, whose works live long after them as living monuments of God-loving souls. " Peace, peace ! He is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life ! " Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. ... | |
| George Steiner - 1984 - 448 pages
...towards transcendence, with its precise echo to Milton, begins with the opening verse of Stanza XXXIX: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep He hath awakened from the dream of life . . . Orpheus is present though unnamed: He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Leiters, vol. 3. 1965). Shaw added: 'Let the children cry a little if they want to: it is natural." 13 have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us o — Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal, which must glow 340 39 Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep He hath awakened from the dream of life Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike... | |
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