This poem asks, "Shall that alone which knows be as a sword consumed before the sheath by sightless lightning?"
This poem asks, "Shall that alone which knows be as a sword consumed before the sheath by sightless lightning?" This poem's speaker recognizes the "Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise." Four stanzas in this poem are spoken by Urania, who questions a Stranger with a brow "which was like Cain's or Christ's." The speaker of this poem instructs, "Go thou to Rome, at once the Paradise, the grave, the city, and the wilderness," and earlier declares, "Peace, peace! He is not dead, he doth not sleep, he hath awakened from the dream of life." This poem concludes with the speaker watching the soul of the title character burning like a star "through the inmost veil of Heaven." For 10 points, name this pastoral elegy written for John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This poem asks, "Shall that alone which knows be as a sword consumed before the sheath by sightless lightning?"
"Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats"