...With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, — where art thou gone? iB Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This...the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, 20 Why fear and dream and death...

...thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, — where art thou gone? 15 \Vhy dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim...vacant and desolate? — Ask why the sunlight not forever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,...

...Beauty, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away and leave...This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate. I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine. Have I not kept my vow ? With beating heart...

...that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, - where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away and leave...tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not forever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,...

...indulge in successive violations of it. "Spirit of BEAUTY," cries the speaker in stanza two, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine...tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not forever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river, Why aught should fail or fade that once is shewn,...

...that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, - where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our...river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, 20 Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, - why...

...caverna le atraen tremendamente, Shelley le ruega a la sombra que le visite más a menudo: «Why does thou pass away and leave our state,/ This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?». III. Estas obstínate questionings nunca han recibido respuesta y entonces el hombre, como vemos en...

...that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form — where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vale of tears, vacant and desolate? 394 In keeping with the Romantic religion of art, Shelley's devotion...

...of evening," "Like memory of music fled." This sense of loss continues in the second stanza: where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our...This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? (15-17) Only "Thy light alone," not a "voice from some sublimer world" of religion, "Gives grace and...

...he addresses as the "Spirit of BEAUTY," cannot be easily sustained and its loss is a human tragedy: "Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, / This dim vast veil of tears, vacant and desolate?" Only it can give life meaning and value, which makes it all the...