...interpreter of mysteries: Tin1 awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats (hough unseen amongst us — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer...inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like lines ;iiid harmonies of evening. — Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music...

...and Helen, 1819.] I THE awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer...Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, 5 It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance ; Like hues and harmonies of evening,—...

...glory's departure: The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. The splendor in nature is due to this shadow but is not identical with it, as the shadow of an unseen...

...Intellectual Beauty 29 The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, visiting 645 (1. 1-4) 30 Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of...

...Intellectual Beauty4 The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats tho' unseen amongst us, - visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer...countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, - 10 Like aught that for its grace may...

...mystical spirit of Beauty: The awful shadow of some unseen Bower Floats, though unseen, among us visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer...inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance. That this Unknown is the profoundest reality, though difficult of comprehension, is equally admitted...

...frustrated by "The awful shadow of some unseen Power" that "Floats though unseen among us, - visiting/ This various world with as inconstant wing/ As summer winds that creep from flower to flower."39 This is far more primal than Chénier's "âme vagabonde" in Néère which "sur les vents...

...Intellectual Beauty": The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen amongst us, - visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer...mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each hnman heart and countenance, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread,...

...1773 (1785). 10 11 The awfiil shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, (1792-1822) British poet. "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," st. 1 (1816). Referring...

...transformed worlds that Shelley imagines in Queen Mab and Prometheus Unbound, the "SPIRIT fair" visits "this various world with as inconstant wing / As summer winds that creep from flower to flower" ("Hymn," ll. 83, 3-4). But when it does, it graciously "consecrate[s]" and purifies each lover's heart,...