...So long obey'd — so little worth 1 Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wiltthou withstand tho shock? And share with him, the unforgiven, His vulture and his rock ! Foredoom'd by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst. The very Fiend's arch...

...poured so widely forth — So long obeyed — so little worth! Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him,...accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, There was a day — there was an hour, While earth was Gaul's — Gaul thine— When that immeasurable...

...employs the same allusion, in his 'Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte': Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him - the unforgiven His vulture and his rock? Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is one of that poet's masterpieces. CHAPTER 3 Apollo and Daphne; Pyramus...

...thon withstand the shock t And share with him, the nnforgiven, His voiture and his rock ! Foredoom'd ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was;— wont, The very Fiend's arch mock ; lie in his fall preserved his pride, And, if a mortal, had as proudly...

...the final stanza Byron suddenly introduces a new possibility: Or like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him, the unforgiven. His vulture and his rock! Foredoom 'd by God - by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch...

...so widely forth 135 So long obey'd - so little worth! XVI Or, like the thief of fire from heaven,2 Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him, the unforgiven, His vulture and his rock! 1. The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane. xv 140 Foredoom'd by God - by man accurst, And that...

...rural altars as the god of shepherds and goatherds. Prometheus Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him — the unforgiven — His vulture17 and his rock? Byron For a long time after the earth appeared, its hills and valleys and broad...

...the Ode, comparing Napoleon to Prometheus, defiant at the end: Or like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him,...worst, The very Fiend's arch mock; He in his fall preserv'd his pride, And if a mortal, had as proudly died! (136-44) Some see the ode as an attack on...

...pour'd so widely forth — So long obey'd — so little worth! Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him, the unforgiven, His vulture and his rock! Fordoom'd by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not the worst, The very Fiend's arch...

...(XI/5) und die letzten Zeilen des ursprünglichen Gedichtes, in denen Prometheus als Vorbild dient: "He in his fall preserved his pride, and, if a mortal, had as proudly died!" (XVI/8-9). Diese Aussagen bilden den zentralen Vorwurf des Gedichtes, und darüberhinaus wird erkennbar,...