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...epically grand than this "Ode to the West Wind." What fire and passion dwell in these lines :— "If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a...strength, only less free Than thou, O, uncontrollable I If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then,...

...Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves : O, hear ! IV. If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were...impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O, uncontroulable ! If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,...

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...are fairly carried along by a whirlwind of poetic excitement. When he cries to the West Wind :— " If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The...thy wanderings over heaven, As then when to outstrip the skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with tbee in prayer in my...

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...know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,2 And tremble and despoil themselves : O hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were...wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision ; I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in...

...know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear And tremble and despoil themselves : Oh hear ! If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a...heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seem'da vision, — I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh ! lift...

...manner in which the stronger singers will take up and develop the broken songs of weaker birds. " If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were...wanderings over heaven. As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven " As thus with thce in prayer in...

...wave to pant beneath thy power and share The impulse of thy strength — only less free Than thou, 0 uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood,...wanderings over heaven As then, when to outstrip thy skyey speed Scarce seemed a vision, I would ne'er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore...