...the elliptical syntax that conceals the natural signification he still hopes to find: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, —...or weak — All that I would have sought, and all 1 seek, Bear, know, feel — and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I...

...within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest? xcvn 905 Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, - could...weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, 910 Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe - into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak;...

...meditates the situation by comparing it to the fury of a storm breaking over the Alps: "Could I embody and unbosom now / That which is most within me,— could I wreak / My thoughts upon expression. . . ." (st. 97). And so forth: he longs for "one word [of] Lightening," one word of comfort that would...

...expressiveness stumbles and fragments to the tortured incompetence of his "voiceless thought": Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, - could...- into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as...

...that do for Byron's hero what the first paragraph quoted above does for Douglass's: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, could...— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as...

...those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest? Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could...— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as...

...himself to silence in Childe Harald: Could I embody and unbusom now That which is most within me,—could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw...breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought sheathing it as...

...himself to silence in Childe Harald: Could I embody and unbusom now That which is most within me,—could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw...sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe—into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But äs it is, I live and...

...meditates on the situation by comparing it to the fury of a storm breaking over the Alps: Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression. (st. 97} And so forth: he longs for "one word [of] Lightening," one word of comfort that would "lighten"...

...those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest? 95 Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, —...Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, 910 And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most...