. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. TO SHELLEY. Upon thy subtile nature was a bloom, Unearthly in its tender, gleamful glow, As thou hadst strayed from some sane star where blowBut halcyon airs, and here, blinded by gloom,Didst stumble, for the lack of light and room,And strike and wound with purposed good ; and so,Through Highest pity, thou hadst leave to goEarly to where for each earth-life its doomAwaits it, as the fruit the seed, and whereThy multitudinous imaginings,So truthful pure, on Heavens fulgent stairFit issue find, and mid the radiant ringsOf mounting Angel
. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. TO SHELLEY. Upon thy subtile nature was a bloom, Unearthly in its tender, gleamful glow, As thou hadst strayed from some sane star where blowBut halcyon airs, and here, blinded by gloom,Didst stumble, for the lack of light and room,And strike and wound with purposed good ; and so,Through Highest pity, thou hadst leave to goEarly to where for each earth-life its doomAwaits it, as the fruit the seed, and whereThy multitudinous imaginings,So truthful pure, on Heavens fulgent stairFit issue find, and mid the radiant ringsOf mounting Angels thy great spirits glareAdds to the brightness of the brightest things. SHELLEY. I. Man might be symbolized by the attitude ofMercury a-tiptoe on the earth, his figure tend-ing, and his eyes and upper limbs turned, sky-,ward, with wings on his heels, to waft himtoward the Heaven whence he came. Manon earth is an aspiring animal, the only animalthat aspires, the only animal that can beholdthe constellations, and, therefore, more than ananimal, A budded an
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