...never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, beyond the tomb — It rise and upbuild it again. Percy Byesh« 8hdl«y. 450. COMFORT, Common, There is a heaven yet to rest...

...never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, I rise and upbuild it again. SHELLEY. VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. To an American visiting Europe, the...

...their convex gleams, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, Build up the blue dome of the air, a 1 i x B Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, [ PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. An admirable example of his rich fancy and remarkable felicity of noetic diction.]...

...with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air I silently laugh at...ghost from the tomb. I arise and unbuild it again. Donald Davie speaks of this as a poem 'ruined by licentious phrasing', by which he means a lack of...

...be very dangerous to classify the metaphors of the poets. When Shelley says that the cloud will rise 'like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,' it would be quite possible to call the first a case of the coarse primitive birth-myth and the second...

...with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare. And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at...ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. The second example is from Prometheus Unbound, which has been described by Herbert Read as "the greatest...

...call the Moon, (1. 45-46) 25 I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; 26 A X . . ram, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. (I. 81—84)...

...corresponding growth of religious wisdom only increases our fear of death. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Like a child from the womb, Like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. Percy Shelley Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the World Logic alone cannot give...

...bare, And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams. Build up the blue dome of air, so I silendy laugh at my 'own cenotaph, And out of the caverns...ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. POEMS FROM 1821 Epipsychidion244 Verses addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V — now...

...Press, 1925), 8: 350-51. 6. So Shelley's Cloud views a clear sky as a false ground in "The Cloud": "I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, /And out of...a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, / 1 arise and unbuild it again." Wordsworth, writing a wholly conventional "Cenotaph," reminds the...