The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3Reeves and Turner, 1877 |
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... heart made callous by many blows , or one , like Keats's composed of more penetrable stuff . One of their associates , is , to my knowledge , a most base and unprincipled matter of euphony with Shelley that the propriety of changing ...
... heart made callous by many blows , or one , like Keats's composed of more penetrable stuff . One of their associates , is , to my knowledge , a most base and unprincipled matter of euphony with Shelley that the propriety of changing ...
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... heart keep Like his , a mute and uncomplaining sleep ; For he is gone , where all things wise and fair Descend ; -oh , dream not that the amorous Deep Will yet restore him to the vital air ; Death feeds on his mute voice , and laughs at ...
... heart keep Like his , a mute and uncomplaining sleep ; For he is gone , where all things wise and fair Descend ; -oh , dream not that the amorous Deep Will yet restore him to the vital air ; Death feeds on his mute voice , and laughs at ...
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... heart , where , after their sweet pain , They ne'er will gather strength , or2 find a home again . X. And one with trembling hands clasps his cold head , And fans him with her moonlight wings , and cries ; " Our love , our hope , our ...
... heart , where , after their sweet pain , They ne'er will gather strength , or2 find a home again . X. And one with trembling hands clasps his cold head , And fans him with her moonlight wings , and cries ; " Our love , our hope , our ...
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... heart beneath With lightning and with music : the damp death Quenched its caress upon his icy lips ; And , as a dying meteor stains a wreath Of moonlight vapour , which the cold night clips , It flushed through his pale limbs , and past ...
... heart beneath With lightning and with music : the damp death Quenched its caress upon his icy lips ; And , as a dying meteor stains a wreath Of moonlight vapour , which the cold night clips , It flushed through his pale limbs , and past ...
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... heart has burst As it has ever done , with change and motion , From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos ; in its steam immersed The lamps of Heaven flash with a softer light ; All baser things pant with life's ...
... heart has burst As it has ever done , with change and motion , From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos ; in its steam immersed The lamps of Heaven flash with a softer light ; All baser things pant with life's ...
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Adonais AHASUERUS beautiful beneath blood breath bright Charles Cowden Clarke clouds cold collected editions comma Dæmon damned dark dead death Devil doubt dream earth edition of 1839 editions known eyes fear flowers folded palm fragment Garnett gentle Gisborne green grew grief HASSAN heart Heaven hope Horace Smith Hunt's Julian and Maddalo King lady later editions Leigh Hunt letter light living looked Lord Lyrical Ballad MAHMUD mighty mind moon mountains never night o'er Ollier pale passage Peter Bell Pisa poet Posthumous Poems previous editions printed Queen Mab Rossetti Rossetti's edition says scorn seems SEMICHORUS sense shadow Shelley's editions SHELLEY'S NOTE sleep smile soul spirit splendour stanza stars strange substituted sweet tears thee thine things Thou art thought tion tower transcript waves weep wind wings word written
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Page 146 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 25 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 29 - That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 28 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 27 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, 440 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 146 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, ii.
Page 16 - As Albion wails for thee: the curse of Cain Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast, And scared the angel soul that was its earthly guest ! xv1n.
Page 13 - The shadow of white Death, and at the" door Invisible Corruption waits to trace His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place ; The eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey, till darkness and the law Of change shall o'er his sleep the mortal curtain draw.
Page 147 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array ; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Page 153 - All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.