...above, "Look to my brow! Have I redeemed my pledge?" echoes the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (61-62): "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers / To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow?" As in Pauline, Browning echoes Shelley's text to affirm a difference, a difference that humanizes Shelley's...

...and blossoming Sudden thy shadow fell on me — I shrieked and clasp'd my hands in ecstacy! I vow'd d sentiment, most tersely and musically thus expressed: And since, vision'd bowers Of studious zeal or love's delight nation is its Soul.* With the passions of mankind...

...Prometheus, would be at the least a version of the saint-like Asia dedicated to tending the Promethean fire: "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers / To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?" (Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 61-62). Shelley's Hymn, in turn, looks back to Wordsworth and the devotions...

...me" (1. 59), sealing an ecstatic pact. As we hear in retrospect at the opening of the sixth stanza: "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers / To thee and thine" (ll. 61-62). The text's earlier transitional image, concerned with the mutability of those elevated...

...heart whose love is innocent." Shelley composed "A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," in which he states: "I vowed that I would dedicate my powers/ To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?" (Socrates had made a similar promise to Love, as we have seen.) Yet it was John Keats, dead at 26,...

...birds and blossoming, Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstacy! 60 I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine - have 1 not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand...

...mollify.3 Beauty (or "loveliness") is itself whelped by the same, uncanny parent as awful-ness: (6) I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and...grave: they have in visioned bowers Of studious zeal or love's delight Outwatched with me the envious night — They know that never joy illumed my brow Unlinked...

...and blossoming Sudden thy shadow fell on me — I shrieked and clasp'd my hands in erstacy! I vow'd that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine: have I not kept the vowWith beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from...

...diferenciándose menos del sentimiento teísta que criticó en su adolescencia: «I vowed that I would dedícate my powers/ To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?» Lo único a lo que no es ajeno el Poder, y aquí reside su vulnerabilidad, es a la capacidad que tiene...

...those conjured hours 'that have the charm / Of visionary things' (1.632-3). 'Even now,' writes Shelley, 'I call the phantoms of a thousand hours / Each from...they have in visioned bowers / Of studious zeal or love's delight / Outwatched with me the envious night' ('Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' 63-7). The 'some...