Exactly,
but without more info I doubt the origin will be found unless someone
actually knows the poem.
R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: ghost quote
> I wonder if the quote is a partial reminiscence of Shelley, Roger, the
quote
> seemingly slightly antiseptic in a near contemporary idiom way.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
> www.chidesplay.8m.com
>
> Painting Without Numbers
> www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: ghost quote
>
>
> > Dave,
> >
> > Nearest I can find is Percy Bysse
> >
> > O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, / Thou, from whose
unseen
> > presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter
> > fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, /
> Pestilence-stricken
> > multitudes: O thou, / Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The wingèd
> > seeds, where they lie cold and low,/ Each like a corpse within its
grave,
> > until / Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the
> > dreaming earth.
> > Ode to the West Wind
> >
> > Roger.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 4:14 PM
> > Subject: ghost quote
> >
> >
> > > Some friends of mine are racking wits over the source of the following
> > > quote: "and ghosts shall drive you on..."
> > >
> > > My memory resembling the place where all odd socks disappear today I
> > > wondered if anyone could oblige.
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David Bircumshaw
> > >
> > > Leicester, England
> > >
> > > A Chide's Alphabet
> > > www.chidesplay.8m.com
> > >
> > > Painting Without Numbers
> > > www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm
> > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
> > >
> >
>
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