Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul hour after hour, Clings to the mass of life; yet clinging, leans; And leaning, makes more dark the dread abyss In which it fears to fall: beneath this... Dramas, Tragic, Comic and Legendary - Page 216by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 872 pages
...terror and with toil Over a gulph, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coining don • Even as a wretched soul, hour, after hour, Clings...clinging, leans ; And leaning, makes more dark the dread abysi In which it fears to fall : beneath ibis crag, Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 896 pages
...clings seems slowly coming down -, Kven us a wretched soul, hour, after hour, Clings to t !»• mam of life ; yet clinging, leans ; And leaning, makes more dark the dread ahytc In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag, Huge as despair, as if iu weariness, The melancholy... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...years, Sustain'd itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul...abyss In which it fears to fall: beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns — below, You hear but' sec not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 624 pages
...Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings, seems slowly coming ¡an; Even as a wTetched ded, And every golden feather gleam'd therein —...scale inextricably blended. The Serpent's mail'd a abj» In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 886 pages
...and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul hour alter hour. Clings to the mass of life, yet, clinging, leans;...more dark the dread abyss In which it fears to fall heneath this crag, Huge as despair, as i ,n weariness, The melancholy mountam yawns; below, You hear... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...years, Sustain'd itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings, seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul,...clinging, leans ; And leaning, makes more dark the dread abyat In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down ; Even as a wretched soul...abyss In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns — below, You hear but see not... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down ; Kven as a wretched soul hour after hour Clings to the mass...abyss In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns — below, You hear but see not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...years Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings, ith toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which...Even as a wretched soul, hour after hour, Clings to Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns ; below You hear, but see not, an... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 606 pages
...Sustain'd itself with terror and with toil • Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings, seems slowly coming down ; Even as a wretched soul,...clinging leans; And leaning makes more dark the dread abys In which it fears to fall. Beneath this crag, Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy... | |
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