. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. pallid countenance of Byron grew paler,and his cynical lips quivered. Even the stout-hearted Trelawney trembled. The suddenlywidowed mothers, Mary and Jane, sobbed con-vulsively in one anothers arms, and threwthemselves in agony upon their orphan chil-dren. Mary was left suddenly in the dark:the light of her life had been quenched. Allabout her, where there had been bright illu-mination, was thick gloom. And yet for her,as for every human being in utmost extremity,. SHELLEY. 255 there was a possible consolation. When theres
. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. pallid countenance of Byron grew paler,and his cynical lips quivered. Even the stout-hearted Trelawney trembled. The suddenlywidowed mothers, Mary and Jane, sobbed con-vulsively in one anothers arms, and threwthemselves in agony upon their orphan chil-dren. Mary was left suddenly in the dark:the light of her life had been quenched. Allabout her, where there had been bright illu-mination, was thick gloom. And yet for her,as for every human being in utmost extremity,. SHELLEY. 255 there was a possible consolation. When thereshould come a lull in the storm of her grief, itmight have been whispered to her: Oh, wherefore weep for Percy! he is not dead !The thunder-cloud and wind he loved, and sea,Have borne his body to its earthen bedOf elemental life, while thankful, heSpringing agaze into the immensityWhere his creative thought aye joyed to roam,His being aglow with livelier life, and freeFrom fleshly bonds and bars and fretted foam,A raptured angel is he in his heavenly
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