 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 412 sider
...he has only once especially alluded to it. In his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty we find these lines. 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... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - 1902 - 510 sider
...to the experience of his boyhood thus : — " 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." At twelve Shelley was sent to Eton. His experi ences were similar to those of Cowper. Deli' cate and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 738 sider
...he has only once especially allude J to it. In his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty we find these lines. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful sscps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : 1 called on poisonous names with which our... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 sider
...should be, | Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' e road runs by To nmny-tower'd Camelot ; And up and...where the lilies blow Hound an island there below. Th called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed ; I was not heard — I saw them not — When... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 434 sider
...should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. v. 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1907 - 308 sider
...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...not — When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at the sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming,... | |
 | 1905 - 622 sider
...should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. v. 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 sider
...darkness to a dying flame ! 45 Depart not as thy shadow came, Depart not — lest the grave should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy...sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, 50 And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 sider
...a dying flame ! 45 Depart not as thy shadow came, Depart not — lest the grave should be, Like Ufe and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought...sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, 50 And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 sider
...sought, like Faustus, the acquaintance of spirits, as shown in his " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty " : While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Shelley's first public school, kept by a hard-headed Scotch master, with its floggings and its general... | |
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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... 
