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" Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue... "
Shelley and His Writings - Page 242
by Charles S. Middleton - 1858
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Repr., with mem ..., Issue 800

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....head was bound with pansies over-blown, And faded violet', white, and pied, r.nd blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...sun smiles brightly : on a cheek The life can bum in blood, even while the heart may break. xxxni. His head was bound with pansies over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best ..., Volume 2

1876 - 564 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy tresses grew Yet dripping...
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Allgemeine geschichte der literatur

Johannes Scherr - 1875 - 900 pages
...we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown And faded violets, white and pied and blue; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Hound whose rude shaft dark ivy-ti esses grew Yet dripping...
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Art, Literature, and the Drama, Volume 3

Margaret Fuller - 1875 - 468 pages
...bleak. Bis head was bound with panxies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noon-day dew, Vibrated as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand...
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The Living Age, Volume 127

1875 - 844 pages
...well his strength as the poet, his weakness as a man, as he has done in these touching lines : — His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 118

1875 - 864 pages
...— "His head was bound with pansics overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear, topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivytresses grow Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Yibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak...
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Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1876 - 336 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude sheft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping...
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Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1877 - 336 pages
...falling shower, A breaking billow ;— even while we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower " His head was bound with pansies, over-blown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Round whose rude sheft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping...
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Shelley, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly : on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break....over-blown, And faded violets, white and pied and blue ; And a light spear topped with a cypress cone, Bound whose rude shaft dark ivy -tresses grew Yet dripping...
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