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. The Quarterly Review - Page 327edited by - 1861Full 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 1847 - 1230 pages
...with the enduring dead :" Or where, unwilling to rest in such poor consolation as this, he added " Peace ! peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ; He hath awakened from the dream of life ;" still he could only rejoice that " He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all... | |
| John Sheppard - Dreams - 1847 - 218 pages
...that some phrases strongly indicate the hope of life and reunion to come; as when'he exclaims— " —Peace; peace; he is not dead, he doth not sleep— He hath awakened from the dream of life." " —Mourn not for Adonais :—thou young dawn Turn all thy dew to splendour ; for from thee The spirit... | |
| 1835 - 606 pages
...proclaims, that the spark quenched on earth is " but bequeathed unquenchably to the future :" — 3g. Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who loit in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...the church above, having won the victory through his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Peace, peace 1 he is not dead — he doth not sleep, He hath awakened from the dream of life. I take the above from an article on this great Ulsterman in Great Thoughts for 14 October, written... | |
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