“No more, I must sleep, forgetting the outrage,
On the thirsty sand lying, and as I delight
Open my mouth to wine's potent star!
Adieu, both! I shall see the shade you became.”
The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)
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French Symbolist poet 1842–1898Related quotes
An Apology for Having Loved Before (1664).
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Book III, lines 173–178
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
Under the Trees, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 494.
Shades of Grey.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?”
Source: Part I, lines 14 - 21, Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: p>What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r,
The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour?Ah, no! she darkly sees the fate of man—
Her dim horizon bounded to a span;
Or, if she hold an image to the view,
Tis nature pictur'd too severely true.</p
“Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!
My shade in glory to the shades descends.”
Book IV, lines 878–879
The Æneis (1817)