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 Book of the Future Life - Page 217by Pauline W. Roose - 1900Full view - About this book
| 1833 - 636 pages
...does Shelley's dirge rise, like the sound of a morning song, over this young poet. He has uid: — " 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 unprofitahle strife, And in mad trance,... | |
| 1825 - 508 pages
...over the grave. He is not dead, he does but 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 kaile Invulnerable nothings. We decay an interesting biography... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...over the grave. He is not dead, be 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 I . Invulnerable nothings. We decay Like corpses in... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...continue. This shall be really to live, and in this fame is the real trinmph over the grave. He 'a 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... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...Through time and change, unquenchably the same, Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame. Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep— He hath awakened from the dream of life— iTis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phfantoms an unprofitable strife, And lu mad trance,... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...proclaims, that the epark quenched on earth is " but bequeathed unquenchably to the future :"— 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,... | |
| 1840 - 974 pages
...change is afterwards welcomed and exulted in as the proper destiny of " the soul of Adonais." " .... 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,... | |
| 1974 - 370 pages
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...time and change, unquenchably the same, Whilu thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame. XXXIX. Peace ! peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awaken'd from the dream of life — Ti» we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...unquenchably the same, Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame. XXXIX. Peaee, peaee ! 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 tranee... | |
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